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pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …
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unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the …
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geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … particular, it predicts lower geographical mobility of homeowners as well as higher exit rates from unemployment by acceptance of … causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on …
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. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility …
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otherwise identical workers result in wage inequality and differences in unemployment rates. The paper is related to theoretical … wage on average and face a lower unemployment rate. Numerical computations for the specific case in which connections …
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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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respect to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
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Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are thereforeprepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, themarriage market benefits disappear while the housing...
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In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival...
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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