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Empirical evaluation of broader job search requirements for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Vethaak, Heike - 2022

This paper analyses data from a large-scale field experiment where unemployed workers were randomly assigned to an additional caseworker meeting with the purpose to impose a broader job search strategy. We find that the meeting significantly increases job finding and is cost effective. However,...

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Search, screening and sorting

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021

We investigate the e↵ect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a subset of them. In this environment, we derive the necessary and sucient conditions for sorting...

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Strategic wage setting and coordination frictions with multiple applications

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

where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment and absence of wage dispersion; (ii) an equilibrium where workers … apply for two or for more (but not for all) jobs always exhibits wage dispersion and, typically, unemployment; (iii) the … equilibrium wage distribution with a higher vacancy-to-unemployment ratio first-order stochastically dominates the wage …

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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition

Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2006

In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase...

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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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Job search requirements for older unemployed : transitions to employment, early retirement and disability benefits

Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Lammers, Marloes - 2012 - This version: October 2012

In this paper, we use a recent policy change in the Netherlands to study how changes in search requirements for the older unemployed affect their transition rates to employment, early retirement and sickness/disability benefits. The reform, becoming effective on January 1st 2004, required the...

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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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Goal setting and raising the bar : a field experiment

Lent, Max van; Souverijn, Michiel - 2016

We study goal setting using a randomized field experiment involving 1092 first-year undergraduate students. Students have private mentor-student meetings during the year. We instructed a random subset of mentors to encourage students to set a course-specific grade goal during one of the...

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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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Ability dispersion and team performance

Hoogendoorn, Sander; Parker, Simon C.; Praag, Mirjam van - 2014

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance? This paper reports the results of a field experiment in which 573 students in 49 teams start up and manage real companies under identical circumstances. We ensured exogenous...

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