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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?
Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019
In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...
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Current unemployment variance decomposition and consequences of using proxies
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; Foguel, Miguel Nathan; … - 2021
We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
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Welfare while working : how does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?
Wolf, Tobias - 2020
This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...
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Job search with subjective wage expectations
Drahs, Sascha; Haywood, Luke; Schiprowski, Amelie - 2018
unemployment entry, optimism decreases job finding by about 8%. This effect weakens over the unemployment spell and eventually … switches sign after about 8 months of unemployment. From then onward, optimism prevents un- employed individuals from becoming … discouraged and thus increases search. On average, optimism increases the duration of unemployment by about 6.5%. …
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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Lohndispersion und Arbeitslosigkeit : neuere Ansätze in der Suchtheorie
Garloff, Alfred - 2003
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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being
Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016
analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011513025
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On the misery of losing self-employment
Hetschko, Clemens - 2014
-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
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Biased by success and failure : how unemployment shapes stated locus of control
Preuß, Malte; Hennecke, Juliane - 2017
changes is, nonetheless, strongly debated. We contribute to this discussion by analyzing the effect of unemployment on LOC … unemployment. Overall, we find a significant shift in stated LOC due to unemployment. Because the effect is observable during … unemployment only and not heterogeneous with respect to individual characteristics or unemployment duration, we conclude that only …
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Changing identity : retiring from unemployment
Hetschko, Clemens; Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2011
economic theory of individual utility. -- life satisfaction ; retirement ; unemployment ; identity ; social norm …
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