Homeownership, mobility, and unemployment: Evidence from housing privatization

Raising employment and quality of life among people with disadvantages – results of a Hungarian project

“…The current instruments of supporting young people in the labour market (tax deduction, travel contribution, etc.) [4,5] should be expanded, involving older unemployed people, especially with disadvantages.…”

“…For older workers is difficult to sustain employment. Usually, if unemployment appears at this age group, there is a one-way exit, in inactivity via invalidity pensions [4,5]. Long-term unemployment appears to have a stronger impact on men's lives than women, men are much more stigmatized than women for their unemployed status and spend more time looking for a job.…”

“…Accordingly, for men, it is easier to find a job than for women in the region [4]. In the case of both sexes, improving skills and labour market services proved to be helpful in finding a long-term job [3][4][5].…”

“…Based on these experiences [3][4][5], the study aimed to test the following hypotheses: There is a strong correlation between the quality of life and disability among adults [7,8]. Psychological distress is also high among this subgroup [9].…”

Unemployment and Gross Domestic Product: Evidence from Papua New Guinea

“…Arranz & García-Serrano, (2020) examines whether changes in the potential duration of unemployment benefits influence the entry of older workers into unemployment insurance and analyse empirically the changes in the age pattern of inflows intro unemployment insurance before and after the reform, on the one hand, and the effect of the legal change on the age at the date of unemployment benefit admission, on the other hand, and findings suggest that reducing the potential benefits duration affects the pattern of admissions, transferring entries to higher ages, and that the age at which older workers begin to receive unemployment insurance benefits increase by between one and three months for certain categories of workers. Broulíková et al (2020) proposes that the privatization of public housing in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain was a substantial policy shock that generated largely exogenous assignment of homeownership to individual households, and this facilitates a new test of the effects of homeownership on mobility and unemployment, and the empirical results do not reject that home ownership reduces mobility, finally the results are inconsistent with homeownership increasing unemployment. Carrère et al (2020) embed a model of the labour market with sectorspecific search-and-matching frictions into a Ricardian model with a continuum of goods to show that trade reduces unemployment tin countries with comparative advantage in sectors with more efficient labour markets and leads to higher unemployment in countries with comparative advantage in sectors with less efficient labour markets, and the results also help reconcile the apparently contradicting evidence in the empirical literature on the impact of trade on unemployment.…”