New Publications
LABOUR: "Low-Wage Jobs - Springboard to High-Paid Ones?"
New publication by Andreas Knabe and Alexander Plum:
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The authors examine whether low-paid jobs have an effect on the occupational advancement probability of unemployed persons to obtain better-paid jobs in the future (stepping-stone effect). A previous version was awarded as best paper in the category Young Economists on the 24th Mondragone International Economic Seminar (Rome).
The publication is available here. |
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CESifo Working Paper Series: "Partnership, Gender Roles and the Well-Being Cost of Unemployment"
New working paper by Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb and Joachim Weimann:
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The authors use the differences between life satisfaction and emotional well-being of employed and unemployed persons to analyze how a person’s employment status affects cognitive well-being. The results show that unemployment has a negative impact on cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership strengthens the loss in identity utility of men, but weakens that of women. Unemployment of a person’s partner reduces the identity loss of unemployed men, but raises it for women. These results suggest that the unemployed’s feeling of identity is affected by traditional gender roles, while this does not seem to be the case for the affective part of their subjective well-being. The publication can be found here. |
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