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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831654
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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market
Fest, Sebastian - 2019
In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012891569
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Hiring Through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection
Dariel, Aurelie - 2019
social ties do not exist? Third, does the existence of social ties have spill-over effects on wages and hiring in competitive …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314859
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Wages and recruitment: Evidence from external wage changes
Falch, Torberg - 2013
This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s … schools with severe recruitment problems in the past and located in one specific region. The empirical approach exploits … for teachers. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the wage premium increased the recruitment rate by 6 …
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Vacancy Durations and Entry Wages : Evidence from Linked Vacancy-Employer-Employee Data
Kettemann, Andreas - 2019
establishment growth, vacancy filling and entry wages, we calibrate a model with directed search and ex-ante heterogeneous workers … response of vacancy filling to firm-level wages. We discuss the implications of this finding as well as potential resolutions …
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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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Job Stability, Earnings Dynamics, and Life-Cycle Savings
Kuhn, Moritz; Ploj, Gašper - 2021
Labor markets are characterized by large heterogeneity in job stability. Some workers hold lifetime jobs, whereas others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) data, we document a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314915
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Cyclical Earnings, Career and Employment Transitions
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo; Wiczer, David - 2022
This paper studies the cyclical behaviour of earnings risk and career changes. We document that the procyclical skewness of the earnings growth distribution arises mostly from the earnings changes of employer and occupation switchers. To uncover their relative importance in driving cyclical...
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