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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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On-the-Job Search and Sorting

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...

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Are Labor Force Participation Rates Really Non-Stationary? Evidence from Three OECD Countries

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

unemployment rates about the behavior of labor markets and the causes of joblessness are useful. …

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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Wolthoff, Ronald; Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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The Impact of the Crisis on Employment and the Role of Labour Market Institutions

Eichhorst, Werner; Escudero, Veronica; Marx, Paul; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

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Unemployment and Search Externalities in a Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Heterogeneous Workers

Gautier, Pieter A. - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

This discussion paper has resulted in an article in 'Economica', 2002, 69(273), 21-40.

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Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

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Economic Performance and Unemployment: Evidence from an Emerging Economy - Turkey

Berument, Hakan; Dogan, Nukhet; Tansel, Aysit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This article examines whether various macroeconomic policy shocks have different effects on overall unemployment rate … and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and … female unemployment rates separately. To examine the relationship, a quarterly VAR model with a recursive order is employed …

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Labor Mobility across the Formal/Informal Divide in Turkey: Evidence from Individual Level Data

Tansel, Aysit; Kan, Elif Oznur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Informality has long been a salient phenomenon in developing country labor markets, thus has been addressed in several theoretical and empirical research. Turkey, given its economic and demographic dynamics, provides rich evidence for a growing, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor...

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