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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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Vignette equivalence and response consistency : the case of job satisfaction

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Praag, Bernard M. S. van; … - 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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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Skills and earnings : a multidimensional perspective on human capital

Woessmann, Ludger - 2024

The multitude of tasks performed in the labor market requires skills in many dimensions. Traditionally, human capital has been proxied primarily by educational attainment. However, an expanding body of literature highlights the importance of various skill dimensions for success in the labor...

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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2014

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...

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The effects of home computers on educational outcomes : evidence from a field experiment with community college students

Fairlie, Robert W.; London, Rebecca A. - 2013

There is no clear theoretical prediction regarding whether home computers are an important input in the educational production function. To investigate the hypothesis that access to a home computer affects educational outcomes, we conduct the first-ever field experiment involving the provision...

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Student abilities during the expansion of US education

Hendricks, Lutz; Schoellman, Todd - 2013

The US experienced two dramatic changes in the structure of education in a fifty year period. The first was a large …

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The sources of the gender gap in economics enrolment

Tonin, Mirco; Wahba, Jackline - 2014

In many countries there is a considerable gender gap in enrolment for a bachelor's degree in Economics, arguably an important stepping stone towards positions of influence in policy making and occupations paying relatively high wages. We investigate the sources of this gap by looking in detail...

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