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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959814
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959848
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233848
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Is Internet Job Search Still Ineffective?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Mansour, Hani - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
found that Internet job search (IJS) was associated with longer unemployment durations in 1998/2000 – using comparable data … from a decade later. We find that IJS now appears to be effective: it reduces individual workers' unemployment durations by …. IJS appears to be most effective in reducing unemployment durations when used to contact friends and relatives, to send …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293739
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761782
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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762153
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762359
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Education, Job Search and Re-employment Outcomes among the Unemployed
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
increase the probability of re-employment following unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371921
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703158
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The Lot of the Unemployed: A Time Use Perspective
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703442