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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes

Flake, Regina - 2013

This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...

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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - 2013

The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of...

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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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Employment protection and capital-labor ratios

Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2014

Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The available empirical evidence suggests a non-monotonic...

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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...

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Private equity, layoffs, and job polarization

Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2015

Although private equity firms are often criticized for layoffs, little evidence exists regarding which employees lose their jobs and why. We argue that explanations for the job polarization process can also explain layoffs after buyouts. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation,...

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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?

Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2016 - This Version: February 2016

In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how … drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put …

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The long-term impact of Objective 1 funding on unemployment and labour market disparities : evidence from the UK

Di Cataldo, Marco - 2015

Policy interventions on inequality across regions and countries, but little research has been carried out to analyse the … for Objective 1 support occurred in the UK region of Cornwall in 2000, we are able to compare Cornwall's unemployment … for not having received Objective 1 funding. Second, we use Local Authority Districts and compare the unemployment change …

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Feeling useless : the effect of unemployment on mental health in the Great Recession

Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco; Mueller, Hannes - 2015

This article documents a strong connection between unemployment and mental disorders using data from the Spanish Health … that an increase of the unemployment rate by 10 percent due to collapse of the sector raised mental disorders in the … chances of re-entering employment. We show that this led to long unemployment spells, hopelessness and feelings of uselessness. …

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The rise and fall of Swedish unemployment

Holmlund, Bertil - 2003

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

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