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incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …
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self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
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Although unemployment likely entails various externalities, research examining its spillover effects on spouses is … scarce. This is the first paper to estimate effects of unemployment on the smoking behavior of both spouses. Using German …-double-selection method for control-variable selection via Lasso regressions. One spouse's unemployment increases both spouses' smoking …
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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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This article examines heterogeneity in the effect of unemployment on social participation. Whereas existing studies on …) based on entropy balancing and focus on unemployment due to plant closures. Using German panel data, we show that the effect … of unemployment varies across the distribution of public social activities. It is large and negative for individuals in …
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This study is the first to provide a causal estimate of the subjective well-being effects of spousal unemployment at … job termination induced by workplace closure, we show that spousal unemployment reduces the life satisfaction of … driven by an income effect, but likely reflect the psychological costs of unemployment. Our findings are robust to a battery …
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Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …
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self-employment and the consequences of unemployment rather than from advantages of self-employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011267912
Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically … investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal … interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784012
incentives for the lowskilled and to increase durations of unemployment. Standard studies measure work incentives based on annual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720128