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Fiscal Externalities and Optimal Unemployment Insurance
Lawson, Nicholas - HAL - 2013
A common finding of the optimal unemployment insurance literature is that the optimal UI replacement rate is around 50%, implying that current levels in the US are close to optimal. However, a key assumption in the existing literature is that unemployment benefits are the only government...
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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - HAL - 2014
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …
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A Simultaneous Determination of the Inter Vivos Transfer and the Unemployment Duration: the Malian case
Bah, Fousseynou - HAL - 2011
This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the unemployed individuals. We present a model where the transfer shapes the receiver's job search strategy while the donor bases it on the receiver's unemployment duration....
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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search, and Informal Employment
Margolis, David; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - HAL - 2014
unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … self employment while increasing average wages in the formal and informal sectors. …
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Sample attrition bias in randomized experiments: A tale of two surveys
Behaghel, Luc; Crépon, Bruno; Gurgand, Marc; … - HAL - 2009
The randomized trial literature has helped to renew the field of microeconometric policy evaluation by emphasizing identification issues raised by endogenous program participation. Measurement and attrition issues have perhaps received less attention. This paper analyzes the dramatic impact of...
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On-the-job Search, Productivity Shocks, and the Individual Earnings Process
Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - HAL - 2005
uninterrupted employment, or the distribution of year-to-year earnings changes. Specifically, we show within an otherwise standard …
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Job board toolkits: Internet matchmaking and changes in job advertisements
Marchal, Emmanuelle; Mellet, Kévin; Rieucau, Géraldine - HAL - 2007
This article examines the role of Internet based labour market intermediaries in coordinating job seeker/employee interactions. A twofold analysis examines on the one hand the matchmaking tools determining applicants' access to job ads, and on the other, the content of ads posted on the web....
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Do spatial constraints affect the job search efficiency?
Cavaco, Sandra; Sabatier, Mareva; Lesueur, Jean-Yves - HAL - 2002
reservation wage are assumed to be endogenous. We exploit data from a French survey conducted by Research Direction of Employment … choice between passive (receiving job offers through the local public employment agencies) and active strategies (extending …
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Do homeowners stay unemployed longer ? A French micro-econometric study
Brunet, Carole; Lesueur, Jean-Yves - HAL - 2003
The objective of this paper is to provide microeconomic evidence for the so called “Oswald's hypothesis”, which is whether homeownership results in negative outcomes in the labour market. In a first step, a multinomial logit model for the choice of tenure status is estimated. Estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791548
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Time Preferences and Job Search: Evidence from France
Halima, Bassem Ben; Halima, Mohamed Ben - HAL - 2009
Increasing impatience reduces search efforts of unemployed job seekers and therefore decreases the exit rate from unemployment. Also, impatience reduces reservation wage and increases the exit rate. To determine the overall effect of impatience on the exit rate from unemployment, we distinguish...
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