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Job disamenities, job satisfaction, and on-the-job search: is there a nexus?

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This study explores the potential role of adverse working conditions at the workplace in the determination of on-the-job search in the Finnish labour market. The results reveal that workers currently facing adverse working conditions have greater intentions to switch jobs and they are also more...

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An Equilibrium Search Model with Co-Worker Discrimination

Sasaki, Masaru - EconWPA - 1998

This paper analyzes the effect of co-worker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and females using a search model. In the presence of asymmetric co- worker discrimination, no female-dominated firm emerges in the labor market. An increase in female participation...

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'Residual' Wage Disparity in Directed Search Equilibrium

Kennes, John; King, Ian Paul; Julien, Benoit - EconWPA - 2002

We examine how much of the observed wage dispersion among similar workers can be explained as a consequence of a lack of coordination among employers. To do this, we construct a directed search model with homogenous workers but where firms can create either good or bad jobs, aimed at either...

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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality

Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002

We develop a model where agents obtain information about job opportunities through an explicitly modeled network of social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads to an increase in the agent's employment probability...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance with Variable Skill Levels

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2004

I study the consequences of heterogeneity of skills for the design of an optimal unemployment insurance, using a principal-agent set-up with a risk neutral insurer and infinitely lived risk averse agents. Agents, who are characterised by different productivities or skills, are employed by firms...

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Estimating a Life Cycle Model with Unemployment and Human Capital Depreciation

Pollak, Andreas - EconWPA - 2005

I estimate a life cycle model of consumption choice with unemployment risk. Employed individuals face the risk of losing their job. Unemployed agents receive job random offers of different quality, which they can accept or reject. Following the loss of a job and during unemployment, an agent’s...

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The Challenge of Youth Unemployment

O'Higgins, Niall - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents an overview of the youth unemployment problem and youth employment policy principally from the European perspective although it is hoped that much of the coment and analysis is relevant for a much broader range of countries. Its intention is to raise issues rather than...

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Elusive effects of unemployment on happiness

Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

personally reduces life satisfaction, but does not have a significant effect on happiness in ordered logit estimation. However …, generalized ordered logit estimation reveals that being unemployed has a negative effect on happiness at lower happiness scores …, but no significant effect at high happiness levels. …

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Explaining Non-Negative Duration Dependence Among the Unemployed

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

We investigate why we observe non-negative duration dependence among young unemployed men in urban Ethiopia. Assuming that genuine duration dependence is negative, there are five explanations for a non-decreasing hazard: the presence of unemployment benefits, the existence of Active Labour...

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The Nature of Unemployment in Urban Ethiopia

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

With around 50% of the urban men between age 15 and 30 unemployed, Ethiopia has one of the highest unemployment rates worldwide. This paper describes the nature of unemployment among young men in urban Ethiopia. We analyse the determinants of incidence and duration and find that most variables...

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