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Based on a two-country model it is scrutinized how the structure of the unemployment benefit system affects the … consequences of idiosyncratic labor market shocks on real wages and unemployment in other countries. International spillover …
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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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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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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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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply … dynamic optimization theory. We develop a general framework for the labor market where the search for a job involves dynamic …
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increase the probability of re-employment following unemployment. …
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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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