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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006

Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...

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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics

Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2019

This paper is devoted to the study of diversification and specialization influence on one of the main indicators of … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …

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Strategic wage setting and coordination frictions with multiple applications

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2004

We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...

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Why is unemployment duration a sorting criterion in hiring?

Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Di … - 2017

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates’ unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms underlying this pattern. To this end, we conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring...

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Returns to on-the-job search and the dispersion of wages

Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2016

A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs, until lay-off occurs, when this selection process starts over from scratch. We develop a simple methodology to test these predictions. Our inference uses two sources of...

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Imperfect information, lagged labor adjustment and the great moderation

Willems, Tim; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2012

This paper first documents the increase in the time lag with which labor input reacts to output fluctuations (the labor adjustment lag) that is visible in US data since the mid-1980s. We show that a lagged labor adjustment response is optimal in a setting where there is uncertainty about the...

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Separations at the firm level

Gautier, Pieter; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999

This paper analyzes the determinants of lay-offs, job-to-job movements and totalseparations with a unique data set that combines information on individual firmsand their workers. We are in particular interested in whether the lay-offpolicy of firms can explain the relatively high level of...

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Unemployment and search externalities in a model with heterogeneous jobs and heterogeneous workers

Gautier, Pieter - 1999 - This version: June, 25, 1999

The continuing deterioration of the position of low skilled workers in the beginning of the 90's in essentially all industrialized countries is one of the most debated issues in both labor and macro-economics. In this paper a matching model with low and high skilled workers and simple and...

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An empirical measure for labor market density

Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000

In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) "Index for industry concentration". This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...

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The attractiveness of temporary employment to reduce adjustment costs

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - 2005

In this paper I determine the importance of adjustment costs in employers' hiring decisions. Temporary work arrangements offer potential ways to avoid adjustment costs. I estimate employers willingness to pay for the characteristics of these work arrangements. I distinguish regular contracts,...

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