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Search Unemployment with Advance Notice
Garibaldi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper proposes and solves a search unemployment model in which job separation requires mandatory notice. When jobs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty, firms would issue advance notice even with good business conditions. We show that such precautionary policy is not pursued if it...
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Multi-Trait Matching and Intergenerational Mobility: A Cinderella Story
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage …
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Understanding the Matching Function: The Role of Newspapers and Job Agencies
Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper provides a microeconomic model of matching which implies that the standard, reduced form approach, is … misspecified. A simple model is analysed (with help-wanted/employment-needed advertising) where the matching rate depends not only …
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Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives
Bandiera, Oriana; Guiso, Luigi; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
choice of managerial compensation schemes and the manager-firm matching are all endogenous. The model yields predictions on …
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Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire?
Ichino, Andrea; Schwerdt, Guido; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non …
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Education, Matching and the Allocative Value of Romance
Booth, Alison L; Coles, Melvyn G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …
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Are the Unemployed Unemployable?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
This paper develops a matching model of the labour market under wage rigidity when hiring decisions are irreversible …
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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
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this Paper we analyse a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
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A Microeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland
Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
informative data originating from administrative records. Using a matching estimator for multiple programmes, we find positive …
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Shadow Sorting
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper investigates the border between formal employment, shadow employment, and unemployment in an equilibrium model of the labour market with market frictions. From the labour demand side, firms optimally create legal or shadow employment through a mechanism that is akin to tax evasion....
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