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Job displacement and local employment density
Maré, David Christopher; Fabling, Richard; Hyslop, … - 2023
Past research finds evidence that workers' labour market outcomes are enhanced if they live in areas with greater job opportunities and employment density. Using two alternative measures of the employment density and job opportunities faced by workers in the local labour market in which they...
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Regionale Arbeitsmärkte in der „Großen Rezession“ : Dynamik regionaler Arbeitslosenquoten in Deutschland, Frankreich und Großbritannien im Krisenjahr 2009
Reiner, Christian - 2010
Regional labour markets in the „Great Recession“: The evolution of regional unemployment rates in Germany, France and … explain the spatially unequal development of unemployment rates at the regional level?”. Using a cross‐section data‐set with … the percentage point increase of regional unemployment rates between 2008 and 2009 as the dependent variable and a set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009731773
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The Employment and Earnings of Migrants in Great Britain
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2007
Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
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Labour Market Institutions and Regional Unemployment Disparities
Huber, Peter - 2014
housing market institutions as well as product market regulation on regional unemployment rate disparities. Using both … national and regional data on unemployment rates for 14 EU countries for the period 1998 to 2009 we find a robust correlation … between centralisation, net replacement rates and regional autonomy with the size of regional unemployment rate disparities …
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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers
Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283136
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P. - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009750237
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Happiness and work
Krause, Annabelle - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403446
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A test of the "Krugman hypothesis" for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003
Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment … large data sets from the U.S., Britain, and western Germany to test the Krugman hypothesis for the 1990s, when unemployment …
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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets
Baert, Stijn - 2020
historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much … larger. Therefore, we point to the clear limitations of the unemployment rate as the (single) key macro-economic indicator of … the health of the labour market. A parsimonious dashboard approach utilising the unemployment-to-population ratio and the …
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