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The right man for the job
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000
decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This cost of search is then decomposed into three components: unemployment … workers being more choosy. The resulting equilibrium is not efficient. Unemployment benefits can reduce the loss by serving as …
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Beyond Okun's law : output growth and labor market flows
Lim, Guay C.; Dixon, Robert J.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between the change in the unemployment rate and output growth using an approach …
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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Wages and employment in the Netherlands, 2017-2023
Klinker, Iris; Weel, Bas ter - 2024
This research documents changes in employment and wages in the Netherlands for different types of workers. We compare 2017 to 2023 using regression-adjusted wages to make sure changes in composition of the workforce do not influence our estimates. The research period has been characterised by...
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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Worker Identity, Employment Fluctuations and Stabilization Policy
Snower, Dennis J. - 2013
This paper provides a model of "social hysteresis" whereby long, deep recessions demotivate workers and thereby lead them to change their work ethic. In switching from a pro-work to an anti-work identity, their incentives to seek and retain work fall and consequently their employment chances...
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert J. - 2014
interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market … performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states - employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …
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The Recovery from the Great Recession : A Long, Evolving Expansion
Shambaugh, Jay C.; Strain, Michael R. - 2021
Prior to 2020, the Great Recession was the most important macroeconomic shock to the United States economy in generations. Millions lost jobs and homes. At its peak, one in ten workers who wanted a job could not find one. On an annual basis, the economy contracted by more than it had since the...
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity : Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2021
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316841