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Search behavior, aggregate rationality and the discouraged worker effect
Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - 2019
Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper we first develop a model for the probability of being in the labor force as a function of the probability of getting an acceptable job offer. This model is based on standard...
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Can voluntary adult education reduce unemployment? : causal evidence from East Germany after reunification
Rupieper, Li Kathrin Kaja; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2024
After the German Reunification in 1990, East Germany transitioned from a centrally planned economic system to a market …-level analysis of East Germany between 1991 and 2002. Our identification strategy is based on a decentralized expansion of courses … average. Yet, in counties neighboring West Germany, we find that courses reduced unemployment. Low labor demand may have …
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Germany's slump explaining the unemployyment crisis of the 1990s
Lindlar, Ludger - 1998
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No credit for transition : the Maastricht Treaty and German unemployment
Driffill, John - 1998
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Non-standard employment in Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2018
In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to a substantially weaker labour market attachment for...
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Dynamics of poor health and non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michał - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
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Dynamics of poor health and non-employment
Haan, Peter; Myck, Michał - 2009
While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011635215
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Homeownership, labour market transitions and earnings
Kamionka, Thierry; Lacroix, Guy - 2018
The paper investigates the links between homeownership, employment and earnings for which no consensus exists in the literature. Our analysis is cast within a dynamic setting and the endogeneity of each outcome is assessed through the estimation of a flexible panel multivariate model with random...
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Job creation schemes in turbulent times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCS were heavily used in order to cushion this...
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Demography and unemployment in East Germany : how close are the ties?
Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014
We analyze the relation between population aging and the decline of unemployment in East Germany for the years from …. Overall results show that the declining unemployment rate in East Germany is indeed affected by aging as evidenced by a … Ostdeutschland für die Jahre von 1996 bis 2012. Hierfür unterscheiden wir einen direkten und einen indirekten Effekt. Die …
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