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Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …
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Remarks before the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Annual Convention, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
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Remarks at the Quarterly Regional Economic Press Briefing, New York City.
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While widely accepted models of labor market search imply a constant reservation wage policy, the empirical evidence strongly suggests that reservation wages decline in the duration of search. This paper reports the results of the first real-time-search laboratory experiment. The controlled...
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We study one potential source of urban agglomeration economies: better job matching. Focusing on college graduates, we construct two direct measures of job matching based on how well an individual’s job corresponds to his or her college education. Consistent with matching-based theories of...
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The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our … efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a …
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