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Using a combination of UKHLS and LFS data and a discrete time model, we test the hypothesis that unstable jobs with variable hours or pay enhance the job finding chances of the unemployed in the UK. We nd no evidence that the share of unstable jobs in the unemployed person's local labour market...
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(JUVOS) for the analysis of unemployment duration. Variants of the JUVOS are used by the labour administration and the … competing implementations of unemployment duration in the data yield partly unstable empirical result pattern even in presence … research community as an important source for the analysis of unemployment. While previous work has mentioned the relevant data …
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This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- Unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive … from unemployment to employment during an individual’s first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …
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Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labour market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …
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This study examines individuals' unemployment experiences from the age of 18 up to the age of 35 using a large panel of … administrative records on unemployment related benefit claims of men in the United Kingdom over the past two decades. The main focus … is on the extent to which individuals' unemployment experiences are affected by regional and skill differences, i …
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This paper studies how cognitive and social skills in childhood are related to the duration of unemployment in …, parenting activities and school characteristics. -- unemployment duration ; social skills ; noncognitive skills ; cognitive … from unemployment to employment during an individual's first unemployment spell. The analysis is based on British cohort …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012608
This paper studies the effect of unemployment benefits on the unemployment and subsequent employment duration using … unemployment and subsequent employment duration for the recipients is statistically significant for the short-term unemployed in … a two-state mixed proportional hazard model allowing for flexible duration dependence and state specific unobserved …
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This paper examines the effects of unemployment insurance on escape rates from unemployment using data from the 1998 … Displaced Worker Survey. Transitions from unemployment to employment are modeled using a flexible representation of the baseline … hazard function and allowing for discrete changes through time in the effects of unemployment insurance benefits, as well as …
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Diamond (1994) that an individual's probability of leaving unemployment decreases with unemployment duration and increases … genuine duration dependence will be stronger the more depressed the labor market. In conflict with this prediction this study … provides persuasive empirical evidence that the pattern of negative genuine duration dependence does not change over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320786
reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for … econometric framework was found to influence the magnitude of the key elasticities: namely the elasticity of unemployment duration … with respect to the reservation wage and the elasticity of the reservation wage with respect to unemployment duration …
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