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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: A labor supply side perspective

Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - 2012

This paper takes a labor supply perspective (neoclassical labor supply, job search) to explain the lower employment rates of older workers and women. The basic rationale is that workers choose non-employed if their reservation wages are larger than the offered wages. Whereas the offered wages...

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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective

Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-employment

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

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Life satisfaction and unemployment: The role of voluntariness and job prospects

Hajek, André - 2013

By using longitudinal data the relation between satisfaction with life and unemployment is analyzed in this study. Data … the effects of voluntary and involuntary unemployment on life satisfaction. (2) Moreover, the intent is to answer the …

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Endogeneity in the relation between poverty, wealth and life satisfaction

Hajek, André - 2013

, even the probability of returning from unemployment to employment can increase. Gender-specific differences are discussed. …

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Does it pay to be a woman? Labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes

Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014

In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...

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Bowling alone or bowling at all? The effect of unemployment on social participation

Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2014

This article examines the impact of unemployment on social participation for Germany using the German Socio …-Economic Panel. We find significant negative, robust and, for some activities, lasting effects of unemployment on social … participation. Causality is established by focussing on plant closures as exogenous entries into unemployment. Social norms, labor …

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The causal effect of paternal unemployment on children's personality

Angelini, Viola; Bertoni, Marco; Corazzini, Luca - 2015

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that paternal unemployment has a … longitudinal value-added models for personality suggest that paternal unemployment makes children significantly more conscientious …

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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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