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Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2010

This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...

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Do employment opportunities decrease for older workers?

Charni, Kadija - In: Applied economics 54 (2022) 8, pp. 937-958

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A Beveridge curve decomposition for Austria : what drives the unemployment rate?

Christl, Michael - 2019

stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new decomposition method, combined with detailed labour market flow data …, we are the first to disentangle supply-side, demand-side and matching factors, which could potentially cause a shift in … the shift in the Beveridge curve after 2014 was mainly caused by a decrease in matching efficiency, indicating a rising …

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Optimal Earnings-Related Unemployment Benefits

Taslimi, Mohammad - 2003

Existing unemployment insurance systems in many OECD countries involve a ceiling on insurable earnings. The result is lower replacement rate for employees with relatively high earnings. This paper examines whether replacement rates should decrease as the level of earnings rises. The framework is...

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Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Search Equilibrium

Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998

Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker's unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker-firm bargaining over wages, free entry of new jobs,...

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Do unemployment benefits increase unemployment? New evidence on an old question

Fredriksson, Peter; Söderström, Martin - 2008

We examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and unemployment using Swedish regional data. To estimate the effect of an increase in unemployment insurance (UI) on unemployment we exploit the ceiling on UI benefits. The benefit ceiling, coupled with the fact that there are regional...

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Scars of recession: the long-term costs of the Finnish economic crisis

Verho, Jouko - 2008

This study evaluates the long-term cost of unemployment in Finland by focusing on the deep recession period of the early 1990s. The number of plant closures increased sharply during the recession and the unemployment rate rose by more than 13 percentage points. In the analysis, prime working-age...

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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2009

Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower...

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Who recovers from a job loss? The importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills

Dahlberg, Matz; Martén, Linna; Öckert, Björn - 2021

A well-functioning labor market is characterized by job reallocations, but the individual costs can be vast. We examine if individual's ability to cope with such adjustments depends on their cognitive and non-cognitive skills (measured by population-wide enlistment tests). Since selection into...

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Medicaid-ing uninsurance? The impact of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on uninsurance spells

Heim, Bradley T.; Lurie, Ithai; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2023

We study the effect of the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion on coverage dynamics following the sudden loss of coverage from an employer plan. This analysis leverages novel administrative data capturing monthly health insurance coverage for the U.S. population. Using these data, we...

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