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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
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analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
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The relationship between happiness and work is subject to an ever growing empirical literature in economics. The analyses are mostly based on large-scale survey data to measure subjective well-being. Whereas one large strand of research investigates the effect of job loss and becoming...
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The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of...
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less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …
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Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to … panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected … just over 10000 observations, we predict changes in the unemployment rate 12 months ahead. We do so using individuals …
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by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly … employment histories. -- Unemployment ; on-the-job search ; employment histories …
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employment, unemployment and inactivity, from several angles. I examine aggregate conditional transition probabilities, job … contributions of job-finding and job-separation rates to fluctuations in the unemployment rate. Over the past cycle, the job …
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This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the … of sample selection and unobserved heterogeneity are also addressed in the analyses. This study finds that, unemployment … to increase to about 14% in the fourth year before starting to decline. In addition, the first spell of unemployment is …
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This paper challenges what is the standard account of UK unemployment, namely that the major swings in unemployment … over the past 25 years are due predominantly to movements in the underlying empirical “natural rate of unemployment” (NRU … unemployment are due, instead, to very prolonged after-effects of persistent (transitory but long-lasting) shocks. We argue that (a …
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