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Job displacement and first birth over the business cycle
Hofmann, Barbara; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...
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Blame the parents? : how financial incentives affect labor supply and job quality for young adults
Fradkin, Andrey; Panier, Frédéric; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317635
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Job-search and foreign capital inflow — A three-sector general equilibrium analysis
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit; Bandopadhyay, Titas Kumar - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 159-169
the urban formal sector on unemployment and social welfare crucially hinge on the relative factor intensities of the rural … objectives of improvement in social welfare and mitigation of the urban unemployment problem. These results are extremely crucial … from the view point of policymaking in an unemployment plagued, low-income developing economy. …
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Costs and beneftis of temporary contracts
Engellandt, Axel - 2005
Applying data from 13 waves of the Swiss Labor Force Survey (1991-2003) I assess costs and benefits of fixed-term contracts. First, I analyze the existence of a contract related wage gap and the effort response of temporary employees in terms of unpaid overtime hours. Second, I investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417002
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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2015
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530519
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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2014
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change, if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403911
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? New Migrant Settlement in Australia
Junankar, P. N. Raja; Mahuteau, Stephane - 2021
employment, or unemployment, or participation, or wage equation) this paper focuses on the quality of job that the migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318835
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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - 2018
Causal effects of a policy change on the hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change when there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817634
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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 3, pp. 871-916
Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison of spells before and after the policy change if there is unobserved heterogeneity in the effects and no model structure is imposed. We develop a discontinuity approach that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315701
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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs in Australia? The Role of Ethnic Networks in Job Search
Mahuteau, Stephane; Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2021
We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of settlement. We find that there are initial downward movements along the occupational ladder, followed by improvements. As a result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since...
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