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The effect of housing wealth on labor force participation : evidence from China

Fu, Shihe; Liao, Yu; Zhang, Junfu - 2016

This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on homeowners' labor force participation. Using the average housing capital gains of other homes in the same community as an instrument for the housing capital gains of a given...

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Quit turnover and the business cycle : a survey

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Coles, Melvyn Glyn - 2015

The focus of this chapter is to consider new developments in the search and matching literature where wages, quit … to highlight possible market failures but also to explain how on-the-job search and employee turnover fundamentally …

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Old money, the nouveaux riches and Brunhilde's marriage strategy

Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014

A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is costly not only for the potential husband, but also for the woman, as it reduces the wealth of the...

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Why is old workers' labor market more volatile? : unemployment fluctuations over the life-cycle

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014

Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...

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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards

Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016

When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this practice using data from one Mexican and three Chinese job boards, showing that it is widely used to request both genders and is especially prevalent in jobs with low skill...

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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare

Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Average total gains from …

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Employment and hours over the business cycle in a model with search frictions

Kudoh, Noritaka; Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Sasaki, Masaru - 2015

This paper studies a labor market search-matching model with multi-worker firms to investigate how firms utilize the …

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Workforce composition, productivity, and labor regulations in a compensating differentials theory of informality

Haanwinckel, Daniel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2016

We develop a search model of informal labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, intra-firm bargaining with …

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Estimation of a roy/search/compensating differential model of the labor market

Taber, Christopher; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2016

In this paper we develop a model capturing key features of the Roy model, a search model, compensating differentials … the job match obtained by search frictions varies from around 9% to around 29% depending on how we account for other … features. Compensating differentials and search are both very important for explaining other features of the data such as the …

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Information, intermediaries, and international migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa Ann; Schaner, Simone; … - 2021

increase in the option value of search: with better ability to differentiate offer quality, workers become choosier and …

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