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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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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition
Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2006
matching rate in the high-productivity sector can then be realized with fewer applications (and consequently fewer coordination …
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Sequential or non-sequential recruitment?
Ommeren, Jos van; Russo, Giovanni - 2004
This paper examines the recruitment process of firms. We test whether firms search sequentially or non …. We distinguish between different types of recruitment methods. We find that the sequential hiring is rejected for a … applications by job seekers. Informal recruitment methods tend to imply sequential search. …
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The right man for the job
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000
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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. We structurally estimate the search cost distribution, the implied matching …
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Car ownership and the labor market of ethnic minorities
Gautier, Pieter; Zenou, Yves - 2008
We show how small initial wealth differences between low skilled black and white workers can generate large differences in their labor-market outcomes. This even occurs in the absence of a taste for discrimination against blacks or exogenous differences in the distance to jobs. Because of the...
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Do stepping stone jobs exist? : early career paths in the medical profession
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Holm, Anders; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to...
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Job-search periods for welfare applicants : evidence from a randomized experiment
Bolhaar, Jonneke; Kete, Nadine; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2016
This paper studies mandatory job-search periods for welfare applicants. During this period the benefits application is put on hold and the applicant is obliged to make job applications. We combine a randomized experiment with detailed administrative data to investigate the effects of imposing a...
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Eliciting time preferences when income and consumption vary : theory, validation & application to job search
Belot, Michèle; Kircher, Philipp; Muller, Paul - 2021
We propose a simple method for eliciting individual time preferences without estimating utility functions even in settings where background consumption changes over time. It relies on lottery tickets with high rewards. In a standard intertemporal choice model high rewards decouple lottery...
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Homeownership and labour market behaviour : interpreting the evidence
Rouwendal, Jan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008 - This version: November 3, 2008
This paper reviews the empirical research that has been generated by Oswald’s thesis, which claims that there is a causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general...
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