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We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy …
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This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984-2006, using a sample of men and … unemployment on life satisfaction. This paper expands on previous cornerstone research from Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) and … explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment entries starting from 1991. We find that for women in East and West Germany …
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This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984-2006, using a sample of men and … unemployment on life satisfaction. This paper expands on previous cornerstone research from Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) and … explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment entries starting from 1991. We find that for women in East and West Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214107
Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market … recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that … women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a larger share of their earnings in the two years following job …
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We examine how gender, racial, and ethnic variation in unemployment and Unemployment Insurance (UI) receipt changed … of employment. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we find that, in the past 50 years, the unemployment rates for … had the same unemployment rates as men; nonwhites still had higher unemployment rates than whites; and the rate for …
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We examine how gender, racial, and ethnic variation in unemployment and Unemployment Insurance (UI) receipt changed … of employment. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we confirm that, in the past 50 years, the unemployment rates … same unemployment rates as men; whereas nonwhite and Hispanic rates remained above those for the full population. Yet, once …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677114
This paper examines the impact of unemployment on life satisfaction for Germany 1984–2006, using a sample of men and … unemployment on life satisfaction.This paper expands on previous cornerstone research from Winkelmann and Winkelmann (1998) and … explicitly identifies truly exogenous unemployment entries starting from 1991.We find that for women in East andWest Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561993
-finding rates and the more standard view of negative effects. When unemployment compensation, if any, is low enough, we argue that … conclusion as well. Looking specifically at unemployment compensation, its optimal level is generally higher than when a lower …
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This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...
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In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
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