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How Much Does Others' Protection Matter? Employment Protection, Future Labour Market Prospects and Well-Being
Lücke, Christine; Knabe, Andreas - 2018
Employment protection legislation (EPL) is an important determinant of workers’ perceived future labour market prospects as well as their subjective well-being. Recent studies indicate that it is not only a worker’s own level of protection, but also the employment protection of other workers...
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Indignity of Labor: Role of Occupational Prestige in Unemployment
Marjit, Baisakhi; Marjit, Sugata; Gupta, Kausik; Kar, Saibal - 2022
Occupational prestige or job status may induce people to remain unemployed even when jobs are available. Thus measured unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job search, more so in a world where job status is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427731
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Vignette equivalence and response consistency: The case of job satisfaction
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; van Praag, Bernard M.S.; … - 2011
We compare reported job satisfaction with vignette evaluations of hypothetical jobs by using a British, Greek and Dutch data set, containing 95 randomly assigned vignettes. In order to test comparability of international data sets recently the method of anchoring vignettes has been introduced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279372
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Indignity of Labor : Role of Occupational Prestige in Unemployment
Marjit, Baisakhi; Marjit, Sugata; Kar, Saibal; Gupta, Kausik - 2022
Occupational prestige or job status may induce people to remain unemployed even when jobs are available. Thus measured unemployment will always have a voluntary component. Accumulated wealth in a family tends to increase the opportunity cost of job search, more so in a world where job status is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076704
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353464
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427758
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Losing Prospective Entitlement to Unemployment Benefits. Impact on Educational Attainment
Cockx, Bart; Declercq, Koen; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
Providing income support to unemployed education-leavers reduces the returns to investments in education because it … conditioning the prospective entitlement to unemployment benefits for education-leavers on age or schooling attainment can affect … degree completion and reduce dropout in higher education, but not in high school. We argue that the higher prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080047
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244086
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Tax effects, search unemployment, and the choice of educational type
Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2005
This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals? choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low effort...
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Lifetime Consequences of Lost Instructional Time in the Classroom: Evidence from Shortened School Years
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2022
This study estimates the lifetime effects of lost instructional time in the classroom on labor market performance. For identification, I use historical shifts in the school year schedule in Germany, which substantially shortened the duration of the affected school years with no adjustments in...
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