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spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …
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partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
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I investigate the impact of parental unemployment on children's educational attainment and long-run labor market … outcomes in Austria. I find that parental unemployment shortly before an important educational decision by parents for their … results emphasize the intergenerational and long-lasting consequences of parental unemployment. …
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In this paper, we estimate the gender pay gap along the wage distribution using a detailed decomposition approach based on unconditional quantile regressions. Non-randomness of the sample leads to biased and inconsistent estimates of the wage equation as well as of the components of the wage...
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unemployment, and inter-regional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … assess the impact on regional labour markets. Our results confirm that wages and unemployment are by far the most important …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …
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This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We …
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This paper studies whether the transition from a centrally planned to a market economy offers fundamentally new perspectives for those who, in economic terms, were relatively deprived under the old regime. Previous empirical research on this question has been limited by the availability of...
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compared to the unemployed. Whilst some scholars argue that there is a scarring effect of unemployment others highlight that … unemployed in areas with low unemployment. However, in areas with high unemployment and high pay, low-paid workers have a higher …
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This paper presents a search model with heterogeneous workers, social networks and endogenous search intensity. There are three job search channels available to the unemployed: costly formal applications and two costless informal channels - through family and professional networks. The gain from...
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