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The ins and outs of European unemployment

Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European … significance subsided again in the late 1990s and 2000s. In France the dynamics of unemployment are driven virtually entirely by … the late 1980s. -- Unemployment dynamics ; job finding rates ; job separation rates …

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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta - 2015

This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...

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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - 2013

The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We compare employed and unemployed job seekers in terms of...

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Employed and unemployed job seekers and the business cycle

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - In: Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics 76 (2014) 4, pp. 463-483

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Job competition and the wage curve

Longhi, Simonetta - 2010

The wage curve literature consistently finds a negative relationship between regional unemployment rates and regional … wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the …

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Employed and unemployed job seekers: Are they substitutes?

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

The job search literature suggests that an increase in the proportion of job seekers who are employed reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence indicating that employed and unemployed job seekers have similar observed characteristics or that...

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Explaining differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this...

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Differences in employment histories between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly …

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Occupational change and mobility among employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use data from the Labour Force Survey to show that employed and unemployed job seekers in Great Britain originate from different occupations and find jobs in different occupations. We find substantial differences in occupational mobility between job seekers: employed job seekers are most...

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Unemployment and the inter-regional mobility of labour

Pissaridēs, Christophoros A.; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 1987

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