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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...

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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa

Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014

This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...

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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...

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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

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Offshoring and labor markets

Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016

In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...

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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 …

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Displacement and debt : the role of debt in returning to work in the period following the Great Recession

Bednarzik, Robert W.; Kern, Andreas; Hisnanick, John J. - 2017

The onset of the housing and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 marked the steepest economic downturn in the United. States, since the Great Depression in the late 1920s and 1930s. This most recent financial crisis has been characterized by massive layoffs and displacement. Given the depth of...

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COVID-19 and employment in South Korea: trends and comparison with the 2008 Financial Crisis

Nam, Minhyuk; Lee, Soohyung - 2021

decreased the employment rate by 0.82%p and increased the unemployment rate by 0.29%p. These estimated effects are 90 …

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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019

advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …

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Recession and deflation?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters …

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