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Hungry Cooks : Poverty Wages and Homelessness in the Fast Food Industry
Flaming, Daniel; Burns, Patrick - 2023
The fast food industry has a larger share of its workers in poverty than any other industry. The combination of low wages, part-time work and employee churn undercut workers’ ability to pay their rent.Hungry Cooks presents findings showing that fast food workers make up 11 percent of all...
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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014
Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...
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The Italian wage curve reloaded : does occupation matter?
Gucciardi, Gianluca - 2014
wages and the local unemployment rate - within a number of occupations. It exploits the Bank of Italy’s Household Survey and …
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Labor market careers before and after Incarceration
Czafit, Bence; Köllő, János - 2014
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on postrelease careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
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Labor market careers before and after incarceration
Köllő, János; Czafit, Bence - 2014
We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010436159
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The reservation wage curve : evidence from the UK
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2014
enter into employment, and unemployment in the local area district. Largely unexplored in the literature this adds to the … work which has examined the association between employee wages and unemployment - the "wage curve". …
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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and longlasting consequences of parental unemployment. …
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The long-term labor market effects of parental unemployment
Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children’s educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012264111
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Homeownership, labour market transitions and earnings
Kamionka, Thierry; Lacroix, Guy - 2018
longer employment and unemployment spells, they must contend with lower earnings than tenants upon reemployment. They also …
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Wage employment, unemployment and self-employment across countries
Poschke, Markus - 2019
have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions … labor market frictions can explain almost the entire variation in not only unemployment, but also wage employment and self …
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