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Does Extending Unemployment Benefits Improve Job Quality?
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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The Aggregate Labour Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; den Berg, Gerard J van; Vroman, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997--2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labour market outcomes. This is...
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Measuring Labour Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be … applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined … separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labour Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogenous Production Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage. The model has …
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Active Labour Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe - A Survey
Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labour market policies on individual labour market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overlapping administrative units, thus avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets...
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A; Moraga-González, José-Luis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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Unemployment Duration and Exit States in Britain
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This Paper presents new evidence on the determinants of unemployment duration for men and women in Britain in the 1990s, using a nationally representative data set. It examines the impact of individual and local labour market characteristics on the probability of unemployment spells ending with...
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Career Progression and Formal versus On-the-Job Training
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Meghir, Costas; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
, in a world where wages depend on firm-worker matches, as well as experience and tenure and jobs take time to locate. We … wages from the end of statutory schooling. We use the model to evaluate the life-cycle return to apprenticeship training and …
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Mismatch, Transport Mode and Search Decisions in England
Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We develop a theoretical model in which whites mainly use private vehicles to commute whereas non-whites use public transportation. We show that, for whites and non-whites, higher (time) distance-to-jobs leads to lower search effort. Because of different transport modes, we also show that, at...
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