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job-to-job mobility, independent of the job-offer distribution and other labor-market parameters. Applying our methodology … transitions or compensating differentials - can reconcile our results with the job-to-job mobility seen in the data. Regardless of …
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' labor market behavior, we show that immigrants who enter unemployment when a terrorist event hits their home country are 1 ….8 percentage points more likely to be employed within three months than immigrants who enter unemployment in quiet times. Among … more likely to work part-time. These results suggest that immigrants who enter unemployment in a month with high levels of …
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unemployment is a non-monotonic function of the minimum wage level. Effects differ strongly by labour market segment. Cross …
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In this paper we investigate the recent fall in unemployment, and the rise in part-time work and labour market … participation amongst prime-aged Germans. We show that unemployment fell because the Hartz reforms induced a large fraction of the … probabilities show that observed changes in the stocks of registered and unregistered unemployment as well as marginal, contributed …
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market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find … market, as well as with lower unemployment. -- central exit exams ; earnings ; unemployment ; Germany …
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. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …
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This paper studies collective contests with endogenous cost sharing, general effort costs and intra-group heterogeneity of prize-valuation. Our objective is to clarify the relationship between cost sharing, intra-group heterogeneity within the competing groups and the elasticity of the marginal...
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This paper documents the role of unemployment and earnings risk in reconciling evidence in payoff differentials between … the role of lower unemployment risk in self-employment. We decompose earnings risk dynamics by estimating a life …
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We measure individual bias in labor market expectations in German survey data and find that workers on average significantly overestimate their individual probabilities to separate from their job when employed as well to find a job when unemployed. These biases vary significantly between...
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. In particular, I show that once markups are allowed to respond to trade liberalization, unemployment and residual wage …
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