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"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
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"This paper investigates how founders' experience and professional background affect the duration of periods of self-employment, and to what extent the duration is affected by a balanced skill set in particular. In this context, an occupational choice framework based on a competing risk setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005537105
This article explores the influence of social background and social situation on the smoking career. This study is based on a sample of 4.473 individuals who answered the 2006 French Health, Health Care and Insurance Survey. The results of a non-parametric analysis and of a stratified Cox model...
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-ployment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …
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"A major unemployment and welfare benefit reform took place in Germany in 2005. One objective of this reform was to …
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-ployment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages and job stability for unemployed Danish workers. We find evidence … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493866
research using data from other countries, we find that increases in the local unemployment rates are associated with … significant reductions in mortality. Models of mortality by source indicate that the negative relationship between unemployment … elderly fluctuates with the unemployment rate suggests the possible importance of externalities associated with economic …
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. persistence), and exits to unemployment ('no pay-low pay cycle'). The results show shorter spell durations in Austria, pointing to … firm-related characteristics and of the individual unemployment history on exit probabilities and the role of duration … dependence is found, at least for Germany. As to the risk of falling back into unemployment, the results suggest that even low …
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capacity. In important theoretical approaches it is assumed that this threshold depends on the unemployment rate. If this is … estimated in many empirical studies. Up to now, the connection of regional unemployment with reservation wages has not been … between unemployment and reservation wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) …
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heterogenous case theoretical results are mixed. There is no unique connection between unemployment and minimum wages, and the … market, seem to support the hypothesis that an increase in the minimum wage generally leads to an increase in unemployment as …
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