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Time use, unemployment, and well-being : an empirical analysis using British time-use data

Hoang, Thi Truong An; Knabe, Andreas - 2019

We use nationally representative data from the UK Time-Use Survey 2014/2015 to investigate how a person's employment status is related to time use and cognitive and affective dimensions of subjective well-being. We find that unemployed persons report substantially lower levels of life...

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Welfare while working : how does the life satisfaction approach help to explain job search behavior?

Wolf, Tobias - 2020

This paper examines the role of life satisfactioninthe labor market behavior of workers receiving welfare benefits while working. Welfare stigma and other hard-to-observe factors may affect outcomes as on-the-job search and the duration until leaving welfare status. We utilize life satisfaction...

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Quantifying the Non-Pecuniary Costs of Unemployment : The Role of Permanent Income

Knabe, Andreas - 2007

Unemployment causes significant losses in the quality of life. In addition to reducing individual income, it also creates non-pecuniary, psychological costs. We quantify these non-pecuniary losses by using the life satisfaction approach. In contrast to previous studies, we apply Friedman's...

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Is Unemployment Really Scarring? Effects of Unemployment Experiences on Wages

Arulampalam, Wiji - 2021

This paper looks at the effects of unemployment on re-employment wage for men using the first seven waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) conducted over the period 1991- 1997. In particular, how the effect of an interruption changes over time, and whether the type of interruption...

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Characteristics of Unemployment Dynamics : The Chain Reaction Approach

Snower, Dennis J.; Karanassou, Marika - 2021

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach

Jales, Hugo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage … inequality, the size of the informal sector and on labor tax revenues. I show that under reasonable assumptions, cross … strongly affects wage inequality, reducing up to 20% the standard deviation of log-wages, and reduces revenues from labor taxes …

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Labour Market Matters - November 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … and reduce wage inequality, the policy has the unintended effect of causing labor tax revenues to fall as a result of … growth in American wage inequality in recent decades. In a paper entitled â€œThe Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union …

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Scars of recessions in a rigid labor market

Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - 2015

We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...

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Workers beneath the floodgates : the impact of low-wage import competition and worker's adjustment

Utar, Hâle - 2016

I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade across all potential adjustment margins, in the labor market and outside. My research illustrates the importance of industry-specific human...

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The Czech labour market : documenting structural change and remaining challenges

Araújo, Sónia; Maleček, Petr - 2015

The Czech labour market has undergone significant changes as a consequence of economic restructuring. This paper analyses these changes, highlighting both the impact of the recent economic crisis and some of the longer-run determinants of the Czech labour market. The higher share of tertiary...

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