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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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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 Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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The Beveridge Curve

Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …

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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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How Many Educated Workers for Your Economy? European Targets, Optimal Public Spending, and Labor Market Impact

Lebon, Isabelle; Rebiere, Therese - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper studies optimal taxation schemes for education in a search-matching model where the labor market is divided between a high-skill and a low-skill sector. Two public policy targets – maximizing the global employment level and optimizing the social surplus – are studied according to...

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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment

Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using … unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal wage employment, and self employment. The parameters of the model … informal, formal and self employed workers. The results suggest that unemployment insurance would have only a modest negative …

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Temporary Jobs and Job Search Effort in Europe

Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

models for search effort that control for human capital, pay, local unemployment, gender, and time and country fixed effects …

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Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions

Rendon, Silvio; Quella, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of … decline while job loss rates increase, causing the overall unemployment rate to rise. We estimate this model structurally … requirements, increase unemployment rates by 6 percent points. We also find that declining labor demand decreases homeownership …

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