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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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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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Introducing Time-to-Educate in a Job Search Model

Becker, Sascha O. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor …

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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

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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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter A.; Muller, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there are no spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that this assumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers. Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Happiness and Reemployment

Krause, Annabelle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

also a driver of behavior and life's outcomes? Rich survey data of recent entrants into unemployment in Germany show that a …

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Search, Flows, Job Creations and Destructions

Cahuc, Pierre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage … optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection …

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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers

Dolado, Juan J.; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

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....

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christoper A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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