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insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. This paper estimates a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression … balance between two offsetting forces: UI causes agents to seek higher-wage jobs, but also reduces wages by lengthening … both in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by …
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applications, focusing on posted wages and advertised non-wage amenities. We find robust evidence of directed search based on … posted wages in the cross-section, with stark heterogeneity by occupation: the wage-application correlation is driven by … responsiveness to posted wages. By applying text analysis to the job ads, we elicit advertised non-wage amenities and find evidence …
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We present field experimental evidence that limited information about workseekers' skills distorts both firm and workseeker behavior. Assessing workseekers' skills, giving workseekers their assessment results, and helping them to credibly share the results with firms increases workseekers'...
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We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the wages paid by the United Kingdom's National Health Service to examine how … wages affect the duration of time a vacancy is advertised. NHS workers in inner London are mandated by law to be paid an … duration with respect to wages of -6.3. This number is larger than reported by previous studies and suggests that firms can …
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of couples' commuting, wages, labor supply, and consumption. Using data from the PSID for the years 2011-2019, results … indicate a positive and highly significant correlation between wages and commuting when analyzed cross-sectionally. However …, changes in wages and commuting over an individual's life cycle are not related. Additionally, commuting appears to be …
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longer than other individuals at the same educational level. Females appear to have lower reservation wages when entering the … labour market (shorter search time and lower wages). They also stay in the first job longer than males do. The search …
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In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost double any in the previous decade and expanded the share of jobs covered by the wage floor by...
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wage losses of workers displaced due to firm closure based on the comparison of workers' wages differentials before and …
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This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel which employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model of job mobility. The key feature of the model is the specification of wage shocks at the worker-...
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How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data … from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job …
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