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Human Capital Investment in the Presence of Unemployment: Application to University Enrolment in Spain
Fernandez, Rosa M.; Shioji, Etsuro - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604918
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HUMAN CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN THE PRESENCE OF UNEMPLOYMENT: APPLICATION TO UNIVERSITY ENROLMENT IN SPAIN.
Fernandez, R.M.; Shioji, E. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up … enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these results in a unified manner. In this model, unemployment affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047805
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Wage subsidies in developing countries as a tool to build human capital : design and implementation issues
Almeida, Rita; Orr, Larry; Robalino Aguirre, David A. - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
seekers or those who have gone through long-periods of unemployment or inactivity, to gain some work experience and in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010374580
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Global Outsourcing of Human Capital and the Incidence of Unemployment in the United States
Ogloblin, Constantin - 2008
-specific patterns of involuntary unemployment in the U.S. using the latest individual-level data. The estimates from a probit model show … that, so far, global human-capital outsourcing has not shifted the risk of unemployment from lower-skilled to higher …-skilled American workers. Overall, the probability of involuntary unemployment is negatively related with the worker's level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770653
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To shape the future : how labor market entry conditions affect individuals s long-run wage profiles
Brunner, Beartice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2009
We study the long-run effects of initial labor market conditions on wages for a large sample of male individuals entering the Austrian labor market between 1978 and 2000. We find a robust negative effect of unfavorable entry conditions on starting wages. This initial effect turns out to be quite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343912
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Estimating workforce disposal in the Italian labour market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354545
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Is soccer good for you? : the motivational impact of big sporting events on the unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230888
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238837
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369825
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Structural or cyclic? : labor markets in recessions : how should policy respond to higher unemployment?
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413609