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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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to implement. The empirical relevance is illustrated in an application to the effect of unemployment on happiness …
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) from unemployment – i.e., the target group for entrepreneurship incentives – strongly increases the probability of … switching back to unemployment. Thus, entrepreneurship and higher education policies should be considered together in order to …
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the high level and persistence of fear of unemployment in Russia may be caused by non-economic factors …Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers' fear of unemployment under … relevant re-employment in case of displacement. In order to get the best possible measurement of unemployment for those local …
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also obtain a strong negative effect on survival of entering entrepreneurship from unemployment. Hence, policymakers should …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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' incentives to create jobs, increases unemployment, and lowers GDP. To quantify the effects of this novel channel, we extend the … counterfactual exercises. We find that the adverse effects of our mechanism on the economy's TFP, GDP, and unemployment are sizable. …
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We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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the high level and persistence of fear of unemployment in Russia may be caused by non-economic factors …Using the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey data, the paper examines Russian workers' fear of unemployment under … relevant re-employment in case of displacement. In order to get the best possible measurement of unemployment for those local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720445
-setting mechanisms and the cyclicality of unemployment in Euroland. We find that in the 1990s unemployment cyclicality has been higher in … still offer a convincing explanation for a significant part of Euroland's problem of persistently high unemployment. There …
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