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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data
Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019
persons report substantially lower levels of life satisfaction than employed persons. When looking at specific types of … less time at work outweighs the negative emotional effect of unemployment during leisure episodes, such that the unemployed …
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Life satisfaction of employees, labour market tightness and matching efficiency
Pedraza, Pablo de; Guzi, Martin; Tijdens, Kea Gartje - 2020
Di Tella et al. (2001) show that temporary fluctuations in life satisfaction (LS) are correlated with macroeconomic … circumstances such as gross domestic product, unemployment, and inflation. In this paper, we bring attention to labour market … measures from search and matching models (Pissarides 2000). Our analysis follows the two-stage estimation strategy used in Di …
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well … protection and face a lower risk of their organization's bankruptcy than private sector employees. The empirical results for … individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
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Nanotechnologie in der Bevölkerung noch wenig bekannt
von Rosenbladt, Bernhard; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 45, pp. 673-677
Die "Technikakzeptanz" der Bevölkerung ist seit den 70er Jahren immer wieder Gegenstand von Umfragen. Dabei geht es vor allem um kontrovers diskutierte gesellschaftliche Konsequenzen der Kernenergie, der Informations- und Kommunikationstechniken und der Gentechnik. Heute ist es neben der...
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Changes in job stability : evidence from lifetime job histories
Rokkanen, Miikka; Uusitalo, Roope - 2010
We use lifetime job histories from the pension records to evaluate changes in job stability in Finland between 1963 and 2004. We specify a duration model and estimate the effects of elapsed duration, age, and calendar time on the hazard of job ending using individual-level panel data spanning...
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137250
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Trade Union Membership and Dismissals
Goerke, Laszlo - 2010
In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137398
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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation
Becker, Sascha O. - 2006
A novel linked employer-employee data set documents that expanding multinational enterprises retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. In contrast to prior research, a propensity score estimator allows enterprise performance to vary with foreign direct investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778928
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The Effect of FDI on Job Separation
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2016
A novel linked employer-employee data set documents that expanding multinational enterprises retain more domestic jobs than competitors without foreign expansions. In contrast to prior research, a propensity score estimator allows enterprise performance to vary with foreign direct investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991154
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Econometric Explorations on Bounded Rationality : The Case of Job Changing Behavior
Contini, Bruno; Morini, Matteo - 2021
process implies a positive tradeoff between future wages and risk-on-the-job. The main result of this paper is that no … significantly positive tradeoff between wage growth and risk-on-the-job. The interpretation is suggestive: while market forces (net …
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