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The subjective well-being of workfare participants : insights from a day reconstruction survey

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weimann, Joachim - 2015

In this paper, we shed more light on the subjective well-being of workfare participants and compare it to the well-being of unemployed and employed workers. We use data from a self-conducted survey among participants in workfare schemes in Germany. We examine two subdimensions of subjective...

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Job insecurity and the unemployment rate : micro- and macro-level predictors of perceived job insecurity among Finnish employees ; 1984 - 2008

Ellonen, Noora; Nätti, Jouko - In: Economic and industrial democracy : EID ; an … 36 (2015) 1, pp. 51-71

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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...

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Mandatory volunteer work as fair reciprocity for unemployment and social benefits?

Veldboer, Lex; Kleinhans, Reinout; Ham, Maarten van - 2015

Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...

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Do businessmen make good governors?

Neumeier, Florian - 2015 - This version: 29 June 2015

business background (CEO governors), focusing on the growth rate of real personal income per capita, unemployment rate, and … annual income growth rate and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Also …

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Unemployment dynamics in Central Europe : a labour approach

Flek, Vladislav; Mysíková, Martina - In: Prague economic papers : a bimonthly journal of … 24 (2015) 1, pp. 73-87

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Stochastic unemployment with dynamic monopsony

Coles, Melvyn Glyn; Mortensen, Dale - 2015

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The relationship between entrepreneurship and unemployment in Japan

Stel, Adriaan J. van; Thurik, Adriaan R.; Verheul, Ingrid; … - 2008

rate) and unemployment in Japan for the period between 1972 and 2002. We find that, although Japan’s unemployment rate has … been influenced by specific exogenous shocks, the effects of entrepreneurship on unemployment are not different when …

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Geographical distribution of unemployment : an analysis of provincial differences in Italy

Cracolici, Maria Francesca; Cuffaro, Miranda; Nijkamp, Peter - 2007

Unemployment rates appear to vary widely at a subregional (e.g., local or provincial) level. Using spatial econometric … models for spatial autocorrelation, this paper focuses attention on the spatial structure of regional unemployment … of unemployment in the 103 provinces of Italy for the years 1998 and 2003. The results suggest that there is a clear …

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International outsourcing and wage rigidity : a formal approach and first empirical evidence

Horgos, Daniel - 2009

unemployment when taking place in industries characterized by low skilled wage rigidity. Thus, in terms of unemployment, not …

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