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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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survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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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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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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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 …
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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...
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have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. …
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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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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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Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that … unemployment cannot generally be explained by differences in the choice of main job search method or in observable characteristics …
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