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wages below the minimum wage can result from both non-compliance and measurement error (as well as from some few well … definition applies to wages below the minimum wage. This distinction will be the basis of our identification strategy. We will … estimate a structural search model with measurement error in observed wages and imperfect compliance to the minimum wage. The …
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estimate a model of strategic wage bargaining with on-the-job search to explore three different components of wages: general … results indicate that the improved value of outside option raises wages of ten-year-experienced workers by 13%, which accounts …
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This paper estimates an identified VAR on US data to gauge the dynamic response of the job finding rate, the worker separation rate, and vacancies to monetary policy shocks. I develop a general equilibrium model that can account for the large and persistent responses of vacancies, the job...
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insurance (UI) system affects the dynamics of unemployment and wages in an economy subject to stochastic job-destruction shocks …
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In aggregate U.S. data, exogenous shocks to labor productivity induce highly persistent and hump-shaped responses to both the vacancy-unemployment ratio and employment. We show that the standard version of the Mortensen-Pissarides matching model fails to replicate this dynamic pattern due to the...
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In a frictional labor market, when an employee receives an outside offer, his employer is naturally tempted to compete to retain him. Casual observation in the labor market, however, suggests that this type of ex post competition is rare. As a consequence, employers often let valuable employees...
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We argue that the main difference between European and American labor markets is not so much in the unemployment rates, but maybe more importantly in the reduced flows into and out of unemployment, in Europe. Employment protection legislations (EPL) have been extensively studied in the...
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