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We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...
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. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion for the US is consistent with an unemployment rate of 4 …
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where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment and absence of wage dispersion; (ii) an equilibrium where workers … apply for two or for more (but not for all) jobs always exhibits wage dispersion and, typically, unemployment; (iii) the … equilibrium wage distribution with a higher vacancy-to-unemployment ratio first-order stochastically dominates the wage …
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We analyse a model of equilibrium directed search in a large labour market. Each worker, observing the wages posted at all vacancies, makes a fixed, finite number of applications, a. We allow for the possibility of ex post competition should more than one vacancy want to hire the same worker....
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This paper studies the identification of the costs of simultaneous search in a class of (portfolio) problems studied by Chade and Smith (2006). We show that aggregate data from a single market, or disaggregate data from a single market segment, do not provide sufficient information to identify...
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This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
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Trade unions tend to reduce the dispersion of wages among their members. Skilled workers may therefore have an incentive to separate from an encompassing union and organize into a separate craft union. In this paper, we examine a theoretical model to gain insight into the determinants of the...
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unemployment. …
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Based on micro-data on individual workers for the period 2000-2005, we show that wage differentials in the Netherlands are small but present. A large part of these differentials can be attributed to individual characteristics of workers. Remaining effects are partially explained by variations in...
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