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Gielen, Anne; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

It is puzzling that people feel quite unhappy when they become unemployed, while at the same time active labor market policies are needed to bring unemployed back to work more quickly. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigate whether there is indeed such a puzzle. First,...

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Neighborhood and Network Effects

Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education and labor-market...

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Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

unemployment of an enterprise zone policy implemented in France in the 1990s. …

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Search Intensity, Cost of Living and Local Labour Markets in Britain

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

A model is considered in which optimal search intensity is a result of a trade-off between short-run losses due to higher search costs (more interviews, commuting...) and long-run gains due to a higher chance to find a job. We show that this optimal search intensity is higher in areas...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is NOT a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In 'Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,' Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...

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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth

Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...

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Cyclical Fluctuations in Workplace Accidents

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

fired. Therefore a country with a high or an increasing unemployment rate has a low (reported) workplace accident rate. The … inversely related to both the level of unemployment and the change in unemployment. Furthermore, fatal accident rates do not …

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Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?

Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly … jobs are permanent. We use a dataset on Slovenian unemployment spells to test this prediction and find supporting evidence …. We conclude that the spike in the job finding rate suggests that workers exploit unemployment insurance benefits for …

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Estimating the Probability of Leaving Unemployment Using Uncompleted Spells from Repeated Cross-Section Data

Güell, Maia; Hu, Luojia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We propose a new econometric estimation method for analysing the probability of leaving un-employment using uncompleted … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labour market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment of the short-term unemployed versus the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …

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The Impact of TFP Growth on Steady-State Unemployment

Pissarides, Christopher; Vallanti, Giovanna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Theoretical predictions of the impact of TFP growth on unemployment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which … creative destruction effects by estimating the impact of TFP growth on unemployment in a panel of industrial countries. We find …-state dynamics of unemployment. Capitalization effects explain some of the estimated impact but a part remains unexplained. …

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