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Better workers move to better firms : a simple test to identify sorting
Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - 2013
strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive … (negative) assortative matching, good workers are more (less) likely to move to better firms than bad workers. Assuming that … matching is pervasive in the labor market. This result is in contrast with what we find from correlating the worker and firm …
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Can active labor market policy be counter-productive?
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014
We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418002
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The cyclicality of labor market flows : a multiple-shock approach
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Zhutova, Anastasia - 2014
model capture the possible shifts in the three conditions determining labor market equilibrium in any matching models … a shock to the efficiency of the matching process (search shock). The two former shocks generate a quite balanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417964
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Business cycle dependent unemployment insurance
Andersen, Torben M.; Svarer, Michael - 2010
The consequences of business cycle contingencies in unemployment insurance systems are considered in a search-matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009008841
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From severance pay to self-insurance : effects of severance payments savings accounts in Colombia
Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor) - 2002
In 1990 Colombia replaced its traditional system of severance payments with a new system of severance payments savings accounts (SPSAs). Although severance payments often are justified on the grounds that they provide insurance against earnings loss, they also increase costs for employers and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520495
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Wage insurance, part-time unemployment insurance and short-time work in the XXI century
Cahuc, Pierre - 2018
At the start of the XXI century, characterized by the rise of new forms of employment and of skills requirements, many countries need to adapt their labor market institutions to accompany technological changes and globalization. In this context, unemployment insurance is an essential tool to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959284
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Macroeconomic effects of UI extensions at short and long durations
Acosta, Miguel; Müller, Andreas; Nakamura, Emi; Jón … - 2023
. Through the lens of a search-and-matching model, we show that our estimates are consistent with microeconomic estimates of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335034
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A New Regional Geography of Europe? The Labour Market Impact of the EU Enlargements
Caroleo, Floro E. - 2007
This paper provides a critical overview and a detailed research agenda for scholars interested in regional studies with a special focus on old and new European Union member states. The focus is on the microeconomic foundations of structural change and its spatially asymmetric impact on labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777459
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Macroeconomic dynamics in a model of goods, labor and credit market frictions
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Wasmer, Etienne - 2011
; matching ; business cycle ; goods market imperfection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307979
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They are even larger! : more (on) puzzling labor market volatilities
Gartner, Hermann; Merkl, Christian; Rothe, Thomas - 2009
This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor...
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