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The Impact of Unemployment Benefit Extensions on Employment: The 2014 Employment Miracle?

Manovskii, Iourii; Hagedorn, Marcus; Mitman, Kurt - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We measure the effect of unemployment benefit duration on employment. We exploit the variation induced by the decision … leads to a statistically significant increase of employment by 0.0161 log points. In levels, 1.8 million additional jobs …

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Unemployment Benefits and Unemployment in the Great Recession: The Role of Macro Effects

Manovskii, Iourii; Hagedorn, Marcus; Karahan, Fatih; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

. In particular, benefit extensions raise equilibrium wages and lead to a sharp contraction in vacancy creation, employment …

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Creative Destruction and Subjective Wellbeing

Deaton, Angus; Aghion, Philippe; Akcigit, Ufuk; Roulet, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

In this paper we analyze the relationship between turnover-driven growth and subjective wellbeing, using cross-sectional MSA level US data. We find that the effect of creative destruction on wellbeing is (i) unambiguously positive if we control for MSA-level unemployment, less so if we do not;...

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Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics

Lise, Jeremy; Meghir, Costas; Robin, Jean-Marc - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact … wage determination and employment which extends the current literature on equilibrium wage determination with matching and …

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

Kugler, Adriana; Pica, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

, especially in sectors with higher employment volatility. Moreover, we find that the reform reduced firms' employment adjustments …

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Mortality, Mass-Layoffs, and Career Outcomes: An Analysis using Administrative Data

Sullivan, Daniel G.; von Wachter, Till Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

This paper uses administrative data on quarterly employment and earnings matched to death records to estimate the …

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Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in an Equilibrium Search Model

Alvarez, Fernando; Veracierto, Marcelo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

employment dynamics are characterized by two dimensional inaction sets. Finally, to understand the effect of these contracts, we …

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Job Security Does Affect Economic Efficiency: Theory, A New Statistic, and Evidence from Chile

Petrin, Amil; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

The extensive empirical macro- and micro-level evidence on the impact of job security provisions is largely inconclusive. We argue that the weak evidence is a consequence of the weak power of statistics used, which is suggested by a dynamic theory of plant-level labor demand that we develop....

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Optimal Employment Contracts with Hidden Search

Lentz, Rasmus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In this paper I explore optimal employment contract design in a random search framework, where workers search on and … off the job for employment opportunities similar to that of Lentz (2010) and Bagger and Lentz (2013). The worker … determines the frequency by which employment opportunities arrive through a costly choice of search intensity, which is …

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An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting

Lentz, Rasmus; Bagger, Jesper - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper studies wage dispersion in an equilibrium on-the-job-search model with endogenous search intensity. Workers differ in their permanent skill level and firms differ with respect to productivity. Positive (negative) sorting results if the match production function is supermodular...

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