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Labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the retirement age

Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Hammerschmid, Anna; … - 2018

We evaluate the labor market and distributional effects of an increase in the early retirement age (ERA) from 60 to 63 for women. We use a regression discontinuity design which exploits the immediate increase in the ERA between women born in 1951 and 1952. The analysis is based on the German...

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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America

Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020

We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the … for gender equality. Also, in a region that is aging faster than any other in the world, social trends (e.g., smaller …

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Going solo: how starting solo self-employment affects incomes and well-being

Cribb, Jonathan; Xu, Xiaowei - 2020

Using a large-scale panel data set, we trace the evolution of incomes and well-being around the entry into 'solo self-employment' - that is, running a business without employees. We find that solo self-employment is used to self-insure against employment shocks: employment rates fall and poverty...

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Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply : An Experimental Investigation

Niederle, Muriel - 2010

, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is comparable demand and supply: a surplus of applicants, but a …

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Adjusted Estimates of Worker Flows and Job Openings in Jolts

Davis, Steven J. - 2010

We develop and implement a method to improve estimates of worker flows and job openings based on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS). Our method involves reweighting the cross-sectional density of employment growth rates in JOLTS to match the corresponding density in the...

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Measuring job-finding rates and matching efficiency with heterogeneous jobseekers

Hall, Robert Ernest; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2015

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Scale effects in markets with search

Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor); … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers

Hall, Robert E. - 2015

Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …

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Job search costs and incentives

Zapechelnyuk, Andriy; Zultan, Ro'i - 2012

The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with friction that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is noncontractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect may...

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The effect of unemployment insurance benefits on (self-)employment : two sides of the same coin?

Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Hansch, Michelle - 2020

Although a relevant share of firms is created out of unemployment and current active labor market policies in Europe often subsidize unemployed individuals to start their own businesses, little is known about the role of unemployment insurance (UI) generosity for self-employment. By using...

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