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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324878
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Friends' networks and job finding rates
Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2011
Social interactions have important consequences for labour market outcomes. Yet the growing literature has relied on indirect definitions of networks. We present the first evidence based on direct information on friends' networks. We address issues of correlated effects with instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288901
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Social Interactions in Unemployment
Lalive, Rafael - 2003
selective extension of the potential duration of unemployment benefits. If social interactions are important, this policy change … affects entitled individuals not only directly, but also indirectly by altering the duration of unemployment in the reference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261540
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Unemployment as a social norm revisited : novel evidence from German counties
Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2016
. Using highly detailed German county level data, we test whether the social norm effect of unemployment is age-dependent. The … wellbeing differential between the unemployed and the employed is found to increase with the local unemployment rate at the … beginning of the working life but to remain steady or even to decrease in older age. Individual unemployment, however, remains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440877
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Decomposition of co-worker wage gains
Boza, István; Ilyés, Virág - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/8, pp. 1-31
We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer-employee administrative data and proxying actual co-workership with overlapping work histories, we show...
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Cities and the structure of social interactions : evidence from mobile phone data
Büchel, Konstantin; Ehrlich, Maximilian von - 2016
Social interactions are considered pivotal to urban agglomeration forces. This study employs a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how social interactions differ across cities and peripheral areas. We first show that geographical distance is highly detrimental to interpersonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574053
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Social interaction and sickness absence
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2008
Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276141
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Does Envy Destroy Social Fundamentals? The Impact of Relative Income Position on Social Capital
Torgler, Benno; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2006
Research evidence on the impact of relative income position on individual attitudes and behaviour is sorely lacking. Therefore, this paper assesses such positional impact on social capital by applying 14 different measurements to International Social Survey Programme data from 25 countries. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312561
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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2007
Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320132
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Sickness absence and local benefit cultures
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2011
In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits has become an important concern in the policy debate. It turns out that there are strong variations in absence behavior between local geographical areas, and it has been difficult to explain these variations by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282354