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flow value of unemployment. …
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Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...
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facts. -- sorting ; unemployment ; business cycles ; search-matching ; vacancies …
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This paper studies the predictability of long-term unemployment (LTU) and analyzes its main determinants using rich … unemployed. Applying our prediction algorithm over the unemployment spell, we show that dynamic selection into LTU explains at …. Finally, we evaluate the implications of our findings for the value of targeting unemployment policies and how these change …
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This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
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have higher wage dispersion. We also examine the relationship between unemployment benefits and job search. -- Unemployment … ; job search ; time use ; unemployment benefits ; inequality …
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50 states and D.C., job search is inversely related to the generosity of unemployment benefits, with an elasticity … of 2.5; 5) job search intensity for those eligible for Unemployment Insurance (UI) increases prior to benefit exhaustion …; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …
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We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job-seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the job-seekers made. From the data and the model, we identify the distributions of four key variables:...
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How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries … inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …
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