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underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding … from it, generated by matching. …
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underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding … from it, generated by matching. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744873
bargaining in the matching process from the employer's side. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German …
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Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment loss. Employers' reticence to hire in the preceding expansion, associated in part with a lack of confidence it would last, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40...
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equilibrium search and matching model with risk-averse workers and two states, namely, a good and a bad state. The model yields …
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In the late nineties, Germany was often seen as a laggard with respect to labor market and welfare state reforms with institutional inertia being reflected in notoriously sluggish employment growth and rising unemployment. Recent years, however, saw a complex sequence of reforms with regard to...
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Many large listed firms offer workers the opportunity to buy shares in the firm at discounted rates through employee stock purchase plans (ESPP). The discounted rate creates a gift exchange, where the firm hopes that workers who accept the gift reciprocate with greater loyalty and effort. But...
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This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high …-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept … unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs. Our findings show that on-the-job search introduces an additional source …
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avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets encountered in previous work. We develop a theory of job search … across space that allows us to estimate a matching process with a very large number of areas. Estimates of this model show …
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This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under … stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option …
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