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The impacts of labor market policies on job search behavior and post-unemployment job quality

Gaure, Simen; Røed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - 2008

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time invested in job search tends to pay off in the form...

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The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Gaure, Simen; Roed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies – in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) – on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time invested in job search tends to pay off in the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762093

Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Wolthoff, Ronald; Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most … simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. We structurally estimate the search cost distribution, the implied matching …

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Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications

Albrecht, James; Gautier, Pieter A.; Vroman, Susan - 2003

We analyze a model of directed search in which unemployed job seekers observe all posted wages. We allow for the possibility of multiple applications by workers and ex post competition among vacancies. For any number of applications, there is a unique symmetric equilibrium in which vacancies...

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2003

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

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Information Frictions and Labor Market Outcomes

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015

We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...

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Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

Fredriksson, Peter; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2015

We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns to their types of talents. We therefore measure...

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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The economics of labor market intermediation: an analytic framework

Autor, David H. - 2008

, academic standing, or financial integrity. At their most forceful, LMIs such as labor unions and centralized job matching …

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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009

This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under … stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option …

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