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Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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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 the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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Rising Occupational and Industry Mobility in the United States: 1968-1993

Kambourov, Gueorgui; Manovskii, Iourii - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We analyze the dynamics of worker mobility in the United States over the 1968-1993 period at various levels of occupational and industry aggregation. We find a substantial overall increase in occupational and industry mobility over the period and document the levels and time trends in mobility...

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Job Turnover, Unemployment and Labor Market Institutions

Joseph, Gilles; Pierrard, Olivier; Sneessens, Henri R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit,...

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Where Did They Go?

Frederiksen, Anders; Westergaard-Nielsen, Niels - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We study individual job-separations and their associated destination states for all individuals in the private sector in Denmark for the period 1980 to 1995 and account for the cyclical flows. We find that individual and workplace characteristics as well as business cycle effects are important...

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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics

Yashiv, Eran - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...

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Effects of Employment Protection on Worker and Job Flows: Evidence from the 1990 Italian Reform

Kugler, Adriana; Pica, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

on worker and job flows. We exploit the fact that this reform increased unjust dismissal costs for firms below 15 … employees, while leaving dismissal costs unchanged for bigger firms, to set up a natural experiment research design. We find … that the increase in dismissal costs decreased accessions and separations for workers in small relative to big firms …

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Uncertainty and the Politics of Employment Protection

Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion. A key result...

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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth

Poschke, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For this purpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It is consistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation for productivity growth. In...

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Employment Protection Legislation and Wages

Leonardi, Marco; Pica, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

and on the tenure-wage profile in a quasi-experimental setting. We consider a reform that introduced unjust-dismissal …

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