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Unemployment durations after temporary work: Evidence for Great Britain and Germany
Dekker, Ronald - 2008
Unemployment durations are determined by a number of factors. According to mainstream economics theory, unemployment durations are shorter in a more flexible labour market. In this paper, we hypothesize that workers who had a temporary contract before the spell of unemployment will experience...
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The fourth quarter dip in unemployment rates in Ghana: A systematic account of labour market activities in 2022
Ahiadorme, Johnson Worlanyo; Akoto, Linda - 2023
In this paper, we provide a summary of key indicators of the labour market and use statistical techniques to summarise their information and assess their implications for the labour market conditions and policies in Ghana. The analysis shows that there is significant distress in the labour...
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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality? Comment
Zhan, Zhaoguo - 2020
In contrast with a large body of existing literature, Nekoei and Weber (2017, NW henceforth) find a positive effect of unemployment insurance on job quality. This comment shows that NW's finding is driven by unnecessarily large bandwidths used in their regression discontinuity analysis. When the...
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - 2006
Abstract German (English abstract is added below) Arbeitslosigkeit gilt als eines der schwerwiegendsten gesellschaftlichen Probleme unserer Zeit. Doch welche Gründe liegen, trotz der über die Jahre eingeleiteten Maßnahmen zur Bekämpfung der Arbeitslosigkeit, für die anhaltende...
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Youth unemployment, firm size and reservation wages in South Africa
Rankin, Neil A.; Roberts, Gareth A. - 2010
Youth unemployment in South Africa is high. We investigate whether one of the reasons may be that the wages young … work on the relationship between reservation wages and unemployment we differentiate between wages in different sizes of … firms. Larger firms pay more and thus, even if reservation wages are similar to average predicted wages they may be above …
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Recent reforms of the tax and benefit systems in the framework of flexicurity
Carone, Giuseppe; Stovicek, Klara; Pierini, Fabiana; … - 2009
This paper provides an analysis of recent reforms of tax-benefit systems and a preliminary assessment of their impact on financial incentives to work and on labour supply. Many Member States have introduced policies to “make work pay” and have targeted low-wage workers with the aim of...
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Experience and Worker Flows
Gorry, Aspen - 2010
novel predictions of a decline in job finding rates with age and a decline in the variance of wages with experience that are …
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Optimal Time and Opportunity Cost of Job Search in Low-Income Groups: an Out-of-the-job Search Model
Todorova, Tamara; Dzharova, Veselina - 2010
Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015223565
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Optimal Time and Opportunity Cost of Job Search in Low-Income Groups: an Out-of-the-job Search Model
Todorova, Tamara; Dzharova, Veselina - 2010
Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015224162
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Optimal Time and Opportunity Cost of Job Search in Low-Income Groups: an Out-of-the-job Search Model
Todorova, Tamara; Dzharova, Veselina - 2010
Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015224316