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Social norms are usually neglected in economics, because they are to a large extent enforced through non-market interactions and difficult to isolate empirically. In this paper, we offer a direct measure of the social norm to work and we show that this norm has important economic effects. The...
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This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …
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This report analyzes the employment and unemployment experiences of adult foreign-born men, both among themselves and … dependent variables are analyzed, weeks worked (employment) in 1989, unemployment status in the reference week in 1990, and a … proxy measure of unemployment compensation benefits received in 1989. The theoretical model focuses on the job search …
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The relationship between unemployment benefit duration, unemployment duration and subsequent job duration is … be correlated with unemployment duration as well as accepted job duration. I examine two potential explanations for the … relationship between unemployment and job spell durations; UI benefits increase job matching quality vs unobserved heterogeneity. I …
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unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …
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monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment …, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor- force for the German labor market between January/February 1983 and November/ December 1994. The …
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unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience … unemployment and nonparticipation. There is also evidence of budget constraints that eventually lead to decreasing reservation … wages or increasing search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our …
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