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A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations
Mercan, Yusuf; Schoefer, Benjamin; Sedlacek, Petr - 2021
finding jobs expands. On net, unemployment rises only becauseeven more workers lose their jobs. We propose a theory of …
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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation Over the Business Cycle
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020
This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate unemployment and its duration distribution. Using the SIPP, we document the relation between workers' (gross and net) occupational mobility and unemployment duration over the...
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Paying Gig Workers - Evidence from a Field Experiment
Butschek, Sebastian - 2019
We study the performance effects of payment schemes for freelancers offering services on an online platform in an RCT. Under the initial scheme, the firm pays workers a pure sales commission. The intervention reduces the commission rate and adds a fixed payment per processed order to insure...
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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020
Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …
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Estimating Labor Market Slack, U.S. 1994-2019
Komlos, John - 2019
U3, the official unemployment rate, is an inadequate gauge of labor-market slack and the extent to which it misinforms varies substantially over the business cycle. The U6 unemployment rate is usually about 4 percentage points above U3. However, during the Great Recession it exceeded U3 by 7...
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Hiring Through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
Dariel, Aurelie - 2019
Information asymmetries can prevent markets from operating efficiently. An important example is the labor market, where employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine theoretically and with laboratory experiments three key questions related to hiring via...
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Who Lobbies Whom? Special Interests and Hired Guns
Ellis, Christopher J. - 2019
We model which special interest groups lobby which policymakers directly, and which employ for-profit intermediaries. We show that special interests affected by policy issues that frequently receive high political salience lobby policymakers directly, while those that rarely receive high...
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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Aversion to Hiring Algorithms : Transparency, Gender Profiling, and Self-Confidence
Dargnies, Marie-Pierre; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, … - 2022
We run an online experiment to study the origins of algorithm aversion. Participants are either in the role of workers or of managers. Workers perform three real-effort tasks: task 1, task 2, and the job task which is a combination of tasks 1 and 2. They choose whether the hiring decision...
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Reservation Wages and Labor Supply
Kesternich, Iris - 2020
Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...
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