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most of the key variables, the negative co-variation of unemployment and vacancies, and the behaviour of the worker job …
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The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding …
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/Mortensen/Pissarides matching framework works beautifully once the free entry of vacancies assumption is replaced by a model of business start …
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theories on the data. As implementing this test requires information on the inflow of new vacancies over time, this Paper uses …, around 87% of newly laid-off workers are on the long-side of their markets and so match with the flow of new vacancies as … those vacancies come onto the market. In particular, these workers’ experience average durations of unemployment which …
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This Paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
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Similar durations but lower flows into unemployment gave Europe lower unemployment rates than the United States until the 1970's. But since 1980, higher durations have kept unemployment rates in Europe persistently higher than in the U.S. A general equilibrium search model with human capital...
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In this paper, we analyse employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labour but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing...
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account for observed volatility in unemployment and vacancies. Following a suggestion by Hall, [4] [5], building on work by …
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Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This Paper develops a matching model that can...
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In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment are much lower in Europe compared to North America, while employment-to-employment flows are similar in the two continents. In the model, firms use discretion in terms of whom...
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