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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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See 'On-The-Job Search, Mismatch and Efficiency', forthcoming in the 'Review of Economic Studies'.
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We develop a two-sector endogenous growth model with a dual labour market resulting from the presence of an effort extraction function in one sector. Effort of workers can be influenced by pay and monitoring. This results in an endogenous non-competitive wage differential between sectors and a...
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In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate...
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This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations ("the labor adjustment lag") that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the...
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subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …
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irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …
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Human capital obtained through education has been shown to be one of the strongest drivers of entrepreneurship …. The value of other input factors, such as (knowledge) capital and labor is likely to be affected by the education level of … the possible stakeholders in the entrepreneur’s venture. The education distribution of the (local) population may thus …
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In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyze the gender gap between men and women who …, sample selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light on the sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we … full time do work full time. We find that about two-thirds of this selection is due to observables such as education and …
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We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the...
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