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We use a novel dataset and research design to empirically detect the effect of social interactions among neighbors on labor market outcomes. Specifically, using Census data that characterize residential and employment locations down to the city block, we examine whether individuals residing in...
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In this paper we study labor market transitions out of temporary jobs in Italy focussing on an interesting period of the Italian recent history: the one immediately following the last labor market reform aimed at flexibilizing and liberalizing the Italian labor market by a widespread use of...
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression …Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment … unemployment. This implies a negative relationship between the UI unemployment duration and wage effects, which holds empirically …
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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression …Contrary to standard search model predictions, prior studies failed to estimate a positive effect of unemployment … unemployment. This implies a negative relationship between the UI unemployment duration and wage effects, which holds empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023002
The objective of this paper is to measure the impact of economic growth on unemployment in the Jordanian economy in the … long-run effect on unemployment …
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Using matched March Current Population Surveys, we examine labor market transitions of husbands and wives. We find that the "added-worker effect" - the greater propensity of nonparticipating wives to enter the labor force when their husbands exit employment - is still important among a subset of...
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.S. unemployment rates. We extract the common dynamics amongst unemployment rates disaggregated for 7 age groups. The framework allows … analysis of the contribution of demographic factors to secular changes in unemployment rates. In addition, it allows … favor of the common factor and of the switching between high and low unemployment rate regimes. We also find that …
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.S. unemployment rates. We extract the common dynamics amongst unemployment rates disaggregated for 7 age groups. The framework allows … analysis of the contribution of demographic factors to secular changes in unemployment rates. In addition, it allows … favor of the common factor and of the switching between high and low unemployment rate regimes. We also find that …
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While rising unemployment generally reduces people's happiness, researchers argue that there is a compensating social …, however, rejects this thesis for German panel data and finds individual unemployment to be even more hurtful when aggregate … unemployment is higher. On the other hand, an extended model that separately considers individuals who feel stigmatised from living …
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optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection … models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage …
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