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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...
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overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …
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We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...
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.1 percentage points among women. The reforms had large spillover effects to the unemployment insurance program but negligible … effects on disability insurance claims. Specifically, unemployment increased by roughly 10 percentage points both among men … government expenditures would have amounted to 264 million Euros per year. Due to higher unemployment insurance claims and …
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This paper explores how extended unemployment insurance (UI) benefits targeted to older workers affect early retirement …
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Providing unemployment insurance is particularly problematic in countries with high informality because workers can … claim unemployment benefits and work in the informal sector at the same time. This paper proposes a method to evaluate … unemployment insurance savings account (UISA) scheme can be evaluated. The method is applied to Mexico, and the results show how …
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This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well …
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from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …
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Labour market is characterized in Spain by a high persistence in unemployment rates. One of the main reasons of this … mainly respond, though weakly, to the differentials of wages, unemployment rates and house prices between regions; third …, migratory flows are also affected, to a great extent, by non economic factors. Keywords: migratory flows, regions, unemployment …
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Most transition economies have experienced a prolonged periods of high unemployment rates and decline of the growth … common development patterns in selected countries. Furthermore, since the unemployment is severe problem in most of the … limitations imposed on the interpretations of our results due to the fact. Key words: RGDP, unemployment, comparative regional …
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