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Unemployment duration among immigrants and natives: unobserved heterogeneity in a multi-spell duration model [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper studies whether the unemployment dynamics of immigrants differ from those of natives, paying special attention to the impact of accounting for unobserved heterogeneity among individuals.
García Pérez, J. Ignacio   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Factors Determining Callbacks to Job Applications by the Unemployed: An Audit Study

open access: yesRSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2017
We use an audit study approach to investigate how unemployment duration, age, and holding a low-level interim job while applying for a better job affect the likelihood that experienced college-educated females applying for an administrative support job ...
Henry S. Farber   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Overeducation and unemployment spells’ duration

open access: yesProcedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2010
AbstractThis work proposes an investigation of educational mismatch focusing on the study of individuals’ unemployment spells. We present evidence for Italy, showing that overeducation is basically an occurrence that follows long periods of unemployment and it is strictly related to individuals’ innate ability. We build up a matching model coupled with
ORDINE, Patrizia, ROSE, Giuseppe
openaire   +3 more sources

The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper uses two data sets to examine the impact of the potential duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits on the duration of unemployment and the time pattern of the escape rate from unemployment in the United States.
Bruce D. Meyer, Lawrence F. Katz
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Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Unemployment Duration in Russia [PDF]

open access: yes
Using information contained in a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of Russian citizens, this research analyzes the determinants of unemployment duration during the early stages of economic transition. A competing-risks, discrete-time waiting
Mark C. Foley
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The rain feels different under the same umbrella: Experiences with poverty across LGBTQ subgroups

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Population‐based survey data have demonstrated that LGBTQ communities report varying rates of economic insecurity, yet very little research directly assesses how pathways into and experiences with poverty look different among subgroups at the intersections of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).
Bianca D. M. Wilson, Lillian Nguyen
wiley   +1 more source

Exits from unemployment : recall or new job [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This paper studies transitions out of unemployment in Spain distinguishing between recall to the same employer and reemployment in a new job. We use a large sample of newly unemployed workers obtained from Social Security records for Spain.
Alba Ramírez, Alfonso   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Unemployment in Switzerland in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic: an intertemporal perspective

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, 2020
The following contribution compares the unemployment situation arising from the lockdown induced by the Covid-19 pandemic with previous employment crises in Switzerland.
George Sheldon
doaj   +1 more source

The Made‐in‐Africa Evaluation framework: A decolonial approach to program evaluation

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Made in Africa Evaluation (MAE) framework is a decolonial approach to program evaluation developed by African evaluators over the past 14 years. MAE may be appropriate to community psychologists who practice program evaluation or conduct research in Africa, but little is known about its implementation.
Takatso Sibanda, Robin Lin Miller
wiley   +1 more source

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