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unemployment at business cycle frequencies by using administrative data on registered unemployment and labor force surveys. We … first investigate the fluctuations in steady state unemployment, and then in current unemployment in order to take into … account the unemployment deviations from equilibrium. Our results show the dominant role of the job finding rate in accounting …
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The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model with a perfectly competitive private sector, and non-Walrasian public sector. Our economy also features heterogeneity across individuals and jobs, and a simple sorting mechanism that...
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The public sector hires disproportionately more educated workers. Using US microdata, we show that the education bias also holds within industries and in two thirds of 3-digit occupations. To rationalize this finding, we propose a model of private and public employment based on two features....
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Most of the existing evidence on the effectiveness of family leave policies comes from studies focusing on their impacts on affected families - that is, mothers, fathers, and their children - without a clear understanding of the costs and effects on firms and coworkers. We use data from Denmark...
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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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unemployment benefits for older workers helps explain the low rate of employment just before the early retirement age. Decreasing …
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by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly … employment histories. -- Unemployment ; on-the-job search ; employment histories …
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unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment …
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We investigate the reaction of couples to a job loss during periods of growth and recession in the UK focussing on re-employment of the spouse who lost their job. Re-employment was faster for those with a partner in work, but was not generally affected by other measures of the partner’s labour...
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