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The empirical literature on unemployment almost exclusively focuses on the duration of distinct unemployment spells. In … unemployment (defined as the total length of all unemployment spells over a 25-year period). This new perspective enables us to … answer questions regarding the long-term distribution and determinants of unemployment for West German birth cohorts 1950 …
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their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive …
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document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to …
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With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We examine the impact of such wartime experiences on labor market careers and show that they often...
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We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market with search frictions, where we account for the...
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We study the entry to formal employment and earnings of a large sample of convicts released from Hungarian prisons in 2002-2008. We identify the effect of the prison service on post-release careers by exploiting differences in the timing of incarceration, on the one hand, and estimating fixed...
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loss due to increased earnings risk. However, German registry data for the years 2001-2016 reveal a moderation in higher …-order earnings risk: Men and women born later face higher skewness in earnings changes, indicating fewer large decreases than …
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Germany. The analysis distinguishes four types of career interruptions: unemployment, parental leave for female workers …
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This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical … mobility. Idiosyncratic occupational mobility is the main driver of cyclical earnings risk, mainly due to cyclical shifts in …
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