CASE goods, UNEMPLOYED, TAXICAB drivers, POSTAL service, and MEDICAL research personnel
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Features THE VIRUS MADE ITSELF KNOWN IN THE Chinese city of Wuhan in December in the form of a respiratory illness not unlike pneumonia. On January 30, the World Health Organization declared the virus a public health emergency; six weeks later, it deemed the crisis a full-blown pandemic. Under the crushing weight of an overburdened health care system, countries began recognizing one another's medical licenses, easing visa restrictions on doctors and nurses from less affected regions to emigrate and offering high-quality health care to everyone, no questions asked. [Extracted from the article]
That the long-term unemployed fare worse in the labor market than do the short-term unemployed is well-known, but why? One potential explanation is that the long-term unemployed are "bad apples" who had poorer prospects from the outset of their spells (heterogeneity). Another is that these bad outcomes are a consequence of their extended unemployment (state dependence). The authors use Current Population Survey data on unemployed individuals linked to unemployment insurance wage records for the same people to distinguish between these explanations. The rich work history information contained in the wage records allows the authors to control for individual heterogeneity that could affect post-unemployment labor market outcomes. Even with these controls in place, they find that unemployment duration has a strongly negative effect on the likelihood of subsequent employment. The results are robust to accounting for differences in the labor market conditions experienced by the long-term and short-term unemployed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
UNEMPLOYED, SYMPTOMS, LATENT class analysis (Statistics), EMOTIONS, LOGISTIC regression analysis, MULTINOMIAL distribution, and SOMATIZATION disorder
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This study aimed to explore the profiles of emotion regulation strategies among unemployed people, and to examine the association of latent profiles with demographics and psychiatric symptoms. The study included 136 men (42.8%) and 182 women (57.2%). The average age of the participants was 35.84 years (SD = 26.83). Latent profile analysis was used to determine emotion regulation strategy profiles. Associated factors of profile membership were identified with multinomial logistic regression. The four-profile model (low adaptive emotion regulation class, low negative emotion regulation/moderate positive regulation class, high negative emotion regulation/support-seeking class, adaptive emotion regulation class) was selected as the best solution. As a result of examining the probability of being classified into each class according to emotional difficulties, the lower the level of anxiety and somatization, the higher the probability of belonging to the class 2 adaptive emotion regulation class (n = 56, 18%). The higher the depression, the higher the probability of being classified into class 4 (n = 65, 20%) using a lot of negative emotion regulation strategies. The results of this study indicate that unemployed people can be classified into various subgroups according to their emotion regulation strategies. Also, the probability of being classified into each subgroup was different based on the types of emotional difficulties such as depression, anxiety, and somatization. Through the results of this study, it is possible to understand the relationship between the psychiatric symptoms of unemployed people and emotion regulation strategies and to suggest methods for promoting effective emotion regulation strategies among this population group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Mueller, Andreas I., Spinnewijn, Johannes, and Topa, Giorgio
American Economic Review. Jan2021, Vol. 111 Issue 1, p324-363. 40p.
Subjects
UNEMPLOYED, JOB applications, UNEMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYMENT, EMPLOYEE selection, and UNITED States
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This paper uses job seekers' elicited beliefs about job finding to disentangle the sources of the decline in job-finding rates by duration of unemployment. We document that beliefs have strong predictive power for job finding, but are not revised downward when remaining unemployed and are subject to optimistic bias, especially for the long-term unemployed. Leveraging the predictive power of beliefs, we find substantial heterogeneity in job finding with the resulting dynamic selection explaining most of the observed negative duration dependence in job finding. Moreover, job seekers' beliefs underreact to heterogeneity in job finding, distorting search behavior and increasing long-term unemployment. (JEL D83, E24, J22, J64, J65) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
New Statesman. 12/11/2020, Vol. 149 Issue 5550, p80-83. 3p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
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Unemployed and Gifted persons
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The Critics: Books Time of the Magicians: The Invention of Modern Thought 1919-1929 Wolfram Eilenberger Allen Lane, 432pp, £25 In 1936, writing from exile in Paris, the German-Jewish writer Walter Benjamin looked back at the storms of the recent past with clear-eyed despair. In these ten years, four European men - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, Ernst Cassirer and Walter Benjamin - thought intently, obsessively and sometimes dangerously about how to answer the oldest questions of philosophy. By the later part of the 20th century, the works of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Benjamin had all found their places on the pine shelves of independent bookshops. In the audience of lecture room 11 was the student he would sleep with before the end of the semester, the young political philosopher Hannah Arendt (the major thinker in this book sometimes referred to by her first name). [Extracted from the article]
Social Forces. Dec2020, Vol. 99 Issue 2, p616-647. 32p.
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UNEMPLOYED parents, CHANGE, CHILDREN of unemployed parents, POSTSECONDARY education, and EDUCATION policy
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We examine how parental unemployment affects children's transition to postsecondary education in different institutional contexts. Drawing on theoretical perspectives in intergenerational mobility research and sociology of higher education, we estimate the extent to which these intergenerational effects depend on social and education policies. We use data from five longitudinal surveys to analyze the effects of parental unemployment on entry to postsecondary education in 21 countries. The results of multilevel regression analysis show that in contexts that provide better insurance against unemployment, in terms of generous earnings replacement, the adverse effect of parental unemployment is alleviated. Moreover, entry gaps between youth from unemployed and employed households are smaller in tertiary education systems with more opportunity-equalizing education policies that provide more financial support to students and reduce the role of private expenditure. Some evidence also indicates that policies are more relevant for children of less-educated unemployed parents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Occupational training, Unemployed, Educational vouchers, Labor market, GOVERNMENT policy, and Unemployment
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Participation in intensive training programs for the unemployed in Germany is allocated by awarding training vouchers. Using rich administrative data for all vouchers and actual program participation, the authors provide first estimates of the short-run and longrun employment and earnings effects of receiving a training voucher award based on a selection-on-observables assumption. The results imply that, after the award, voucher recipients experience long periods of lower labor market success compared to had they not received training vouchers. Small positive employment effects and no gains in earnings were observed four to seven years after the receipt of the voucher award. In addition, the findings suggest stronger positive effects both for all low-skilled individuals who were awarded and redeemed a voucher and for low-skilled and mediumskilled individuals who chose to take degree courses than for higher-skilled recipients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Hollywood Reporter. 12/16/2020, Vol. 426 Issue 32, p74-77. 4p. 5 Color Photographs.
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Unemployed
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THR's Film Producers of the Year - Australian-born Robbie, 30, along with Brits Ackerley, 30, and McNamara, 35 - found time on a recent afternoon to discuss their early success, their industry gripes and their plans for LuckyChap's future. Promising Young Woman marks LuckyChap's first film not starring Margot. As Margot said, you think you know what that movie is with Margot as Barbie, but Greta and Noah have subverted it, and we can't wait to get into that one. On the film side, the Greta Gerwig-directed Barbie adaptation sits high on company's priority list, even if Robbie, who is attached to star, can divulge next to nothing about it, apart from the fact that it'll be subversive. [Extracted from the article]
Hollywood Reporter. 12/9/2020, Vol. 426 Issue 31, p50-53. 4p. 7 Color Photographs.
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Unemployed
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FEATURES ON A BRIGHT SEPTEMBER DAY, Jeff Robinov is sitting in his Santa Monica kitchen, the remnants of a hectic morning barely visible. Bewkes decided to eliminate Horn's position, with Robinov, home video exec Tsujihara and TV honcho Bruce Rosenblum forming an "office of the president." PHOTO (COLOR): From left: Warner Bros. executives Dawn Taubin, Horn, Barry Meyer, Dan Fellman and Robinov at the premiere of The Matrix Reloaded in 2003. [Extracted from the article]
Unemployed, Vocational guidance, Year, Musical performance, and Table etiquette
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The article focuses on Peter Loraine has been at the epicentre of pop music in Great Britain since 1995 and Music Week joins a true business visionary to celebrate the 10th anniversary of company Fascination Management. Topics include Loraine rose to prominence as the launch editor of Top Of The Pops magazine, transforming it into the Great Britain's biggest-selling music title and teen magazine full stop, and the success soon led has christened in the pages as the Baby-faced monarch of pop.
This article provides a rhetorical discourse analysis of constructions of unemployed people's deservingness. Data consist of transcripts from Finnish parliament members debating the 'Activation Model for Unemployment Security', from December 2017. In the analysis, three discursive constructions of unemployed people's deservingness were identified: an 'effortful citizen lacking control', a 'needy citizen deserving the welfare state's reciprocal acts' and an 'undeserving freeloader in need of an attitude adjustment'. Analysis focuses on how deservingness and undeservingness are rhetorically accomplished and treated as factual in parliament members' accounts. The analysis pays particular attention to the question of how speakers build factuality through the management of categories, extreme case formulations, 'truth talk' and maximisation and minimisation strategies. The results reflect the negotiated nature of deservingness as well as varying constructions of unemployed people's responsibility in the contemporary Nordic welfare state context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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