Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Unemployment duration"”.
-
The initial unemployment duration of immigrants to Khayelitsha/Mitchell's Plain
… Town labour market by means of a discrete-time duration analysis of the time taken to find work after arrival. Low exit rates from unemployment mean that the pool of long-term unemployed stays large and puts pressure on government resources that are required to try and prevent people from …
-
The waiting game : a survival analysis of unemployment duration in South Africa 2001-2004
… untangle the characteristics and determinants of unemployment duration based on several variables characterising the demographic, geographic and educational diversity of the South African labour force. Results from the analysis support a ranking model of unemployment, as proposed by Blanchard and …
-
What factors contribute to the unemployment duration of youth: a case study of the action volunteers Africa’s youth labour market programme
The incidence of unemployment falls most harshly on youth, who are generally low skilled and often have no experience of formal sector employment; with just 24.4 percent of young people being active in the labour market. In an attempt to assist this disenfranchised so called 'lost generation’ there …
-
What factors contribute to the unemployment duration of youth: A case study of the Action Volunteers Africas youth labour market programme
The incidence of unemployment falls most harshly on youth, who are generally low skilled and often have no experience of formal sector employment; with just 24.4 percent of young people being active in the labour market. In an attempt to assist this disenfranchised so called ‘lost generation’ there …
-
The Incentive Effects of Health Insurance on Labor Market Outcomes and SSDI/SSI Utilization
… been a tremendous amount of literature on how Unemployment Insurance (UI) affects unemployed workers' job search behavior, there has been no previous study on how the health insurance premium subsidy affects this behavior. To fill the gap in previous studies, this paper analyzes the impact of …
-
Essays on Unemployment
… and self-collected data to understand how unemployment and the government insurance that covers it impact workers. I argue that unemployment insurance increases subsequent unemployment less than previously thought, and many earnings-relevant skills would likely hold steady during any …
-
Unemployment and active labor market policy : new evidence on start-up subsidies, marginal employment and programs for youth unemployed
… economies such as the European countries unemployment rates are very responsive to the business cycle and significant shares stay unemployed for more than one year. To fight cyclical and long-term unemployment countries spend significant shares of their budget on Active Labor Market …
-
Education and labor market outcomes in South Africa: evidence from the National Income Dynamics Study
… being the beneficiaries. Thirdly, we estimate unemployment duration by gender and by competing risk, that is, exits into employment or economic inactivity. We use the Kaplan-Meier estimator and the Cox proportion hazard model in these estimations. The results from both estimators show factors …
-
The Impact Of Economic Policies On Household Financial And Labor Supply Behavior
… chapter, I document the differential impacts of unemployment insurance on unemployment duration for older and younger workers. I find that older workers tend to receive longer periods of unemployment insurance than younger workers during economic downturns. This is partly because older workers …
-
Essays on Labor Market Institutions
… nonemployment arises from four large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We document that wages are insensitive to UI benefit changes: point estimates imply a wage response of less than $0.01 per $1.00 UI benefit increase, and we can reject sensitivities larger than …