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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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This paper investigates the impact of job displacement on women's first birth rates, and the variation in this effect over the business cycle. We used mass layoffs to estimate the causal effects of involuntary job loss on fertility in the short and medium term, up to five years after...
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the urban formal sector on unemployment and social welfare crucially hinge on the relative factor intensities of the rural … objectives of improvement in social welfare and mitigation of the urban unemployment problem. These results are extremely crucial … from the view point of policymaking in an unemployment plagued, low-income developing economy. …
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and the inflow of foreign capital on the volume and the rate of urban unemployment and on the social welfare are also … unemployment rate when capital is mobile between the two sectors. This is counterproductive to the standard result. …
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Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on …
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This study provides evidence on the preferences for informal employment among young adults in Colombia. While labor informality has usually been associated to its excluding nature, much of the recent literature has emphasized that individuals may actively choose to work in this sector. There are...
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Since the economic crisis in 2008, European youth unemployment rates have been persistently high at around 20% on …
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Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …
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This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...
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