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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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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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On-the-job search and sorting
Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - 2005
This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...
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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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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
firms can explain the relatively high level of unemployment amongstlower educated workers and the relatively strong … level of education can notexplain the stronger cyclicality of the unemployment rate for lower educatedworkers. We conclude …
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Moral costs, the informal sector and unemployment
Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001
, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …
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Combining micro and macro unemployment duration data
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Klaauw, Bas van der - 1998
We combine micro and macro unemployment duration data to study the effects of the business cycle on the outflow from … unemployment. We allow the cycle to affect individual exit probabilities of unemployed workers as well as the composition of the … total inflow into unemployment. We estimate the model using (micro) survey data and (macro) administrative data from France …
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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The labor market in the great recession : an update
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Hobijn, Bart; Şahin, Ayşegül; … - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009720704
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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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