The authors analyze the effect of participation in short-term training measures on older German recipients of means-tested unemployment benefits. Their analysis uses administrative data of the German Federal Employment Agency, and they estimate the effects of participating in two types of short-term training--classroom and in-firm training--on different outcomes of the participants. Results sho...

I build a dynamic general equilibrium model that is consistent with the trends in participation, unemployment and employment rates for US major European economies over last 50 years. then use to study interdependence of non-competitive labor product markets order shed light on effects institutions policies output. Unemployment harms output because it inserts wedge between supply (participation)...

This paper examines the impact of maternal employment during a child's first 3 years and during adolescence on his or her decisions to engage in a range of risky behaviors: smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, using marijuana and other drugs, engaging in sex and committing crimes. Using data from the NLSY79 and its young adult supplement, we do not find strong evidence that mother's employment...

This paper investigates the change in wages associated with a spell of unemployment. The novelty lies in using monthly data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to analyze the dynamics of those wage changes across different business cycles. The level of education or the sector of re-employment affects the change in wages following an unemployment spell differently across d...

Previous research has identified non-diversifiable risk and a preference for “being one’s own boss” as key determinants of participation in self-employment. Using a simple model of occupational choice, I show how both factors can cause efficiency losses in a free market economy, and how linear differential occupational taxation can improve on the market outcome. A simulation exercise calibrated...

This paper uses pooled cross-section data on recent school leavers in Ireland to model the determinants of labour market status and wages for young adults. Firstly we use a multinomial logit model to analyze whether individuals exit school to employment, unemployment or higher education. Family background is an important predictor for participation in higher education reflecting the degree of r...

access to development and life quality improvement are ideals that all the time has involved human’s mind. nowadays development phenomenon besides economic programs contains cultural and social subject. one of the important subjects in development part is women's issues. in these days, even though trend to women's issues in new approaches of development has increased, but in many coun...

the present research aims to study the relationship between cultural, social and economic factors conducted by imam khomeini relief committee and poverty alleviation among divorced women and widows. to do so, divorced women and widows from aleshtar city were chosen as the statistical society of the research. 120 subjects were randomly selected using clustering method. questionnaire was used to ...

An influential body of research studies the labor supply and earnings of denied Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) applicants to estimate the potential employment and earnings of those awarded benefits. This research design implicitly treats employability as a stable applicant attribute that is not directly impacted by the process of applying for SSDI benefits. If, plausibly, applicant...

For more than fifty years the place and role of women in Algeria have undergone profound changes. The political changes 1990s consolidated strengthened existing gains, a new dynamic women’s rights. All institutional arrangements put action programs implemented since beginning 2000s resulted significant situation women, both field education, health living conditions participation economic public...