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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
benefits strongly increase due to job loss. -- Social cost of unemployment ; health ; job loss ; plant closure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003884088
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343926
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Unemployment and right-wing extremist crime
Falk, Armin; Kuhn, Andreas; Zweimüller, Josef - 2009
It is frequently argued that unemployment plays a crucial role for the occurrence of right- wing extremist crimes. We … unemployment is high. The big difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to … differences in unemployment. This finding reinforces the importance of unemployment as an explanatory factor for right-wing crime …
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Do immigrants displace native workers : the Austrian experience
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - 1994
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Do immigrants displace native workers? : The Austrian experience
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zweimüller, Josef - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000890311
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Immigration, trade, and Austrian unemployment
Zweimüller, Josef; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000928476
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The effect of benefit sanctions on the duration of unemployment
Lalive, Rafael; Ours, Jan C. van; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of … unemployment of the non-sanctioned. This can be taken as evidence of a strong ex-ante effect of a strict sanction policy. …
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Benefit entitlement and unemployment duration : the role of policy endogeneity
Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002
The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 …
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