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Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022

prevalence of social networks in job search there is as yet no consensus on the mechanisms for why referrals are so important: an …

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Beyond Cobb-Douglas: flexibly estimating matching functions with unobserved matching efficiency

Lange, Fabian; Papageorgiou, Theodore - 2020

search on either side of the labor market. Third, we allow for multiple types of jobseekers and consider an "augmented …

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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is restrictive. This paper examines empirically this...

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Hiring standards and market clearing

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002

Consider a labour market with heterogeneous workers. Firms recruit workers by fixing a hiring standard and a wage offer simultaneously. A more demanding hiring standard necessitates a better wage offer in order to attract enough qualified applicants. As a result, an efficiency wage effect is...

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European integration and employment : a new role for active policies?

Gatti, Donatella - 2002

This paper theoretically investigates the impact of European integration on employment by developing a new-keynesian model where fiscal policy effectively reduces firms' market power. Stronger product market competition is shown to reduce the marginal ability of governments to improve employment...

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Psychological foundations of incentives

Fehr, Ernst; Falk, Armin - 2002

During the last two decades economists have made much progress in understanding incentives, contracts and organisations. Yet, they constrained their attention to a very narrow and empirically questionable view of human motivation. The purpose of this paper is to show that this narrow view of...

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Unobserved bilateral search on the labor market : a theory-based correction for a common flaw in empirical matching studies

Sunde, Uwe - 2002

This paper develops a model of equilibrium unemployment with (unobservable) endogenous on-the-job search and (partly … unobservable) endogenous search behavior by firms. The model allows to analyze crowding-out of unemployed job seekers by endogenous … on-the job search of employees, and the interaction of job search behavior and vacancy posting policies of firms …

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The insider-outsider theory : a survey

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This article is an idiosyncratic survey of the insider-outsider theory, describing the vision underlying the theory, and evaluating salient contributions to the literature in the light of this vision. We also indicate what appear to have been dead-ends and red herrings in past research. The...

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Unemployment compensation finance and labor market rigidity

Cahuc, Pierre; Malherbet, Franck - 2002

The systematic use of experience rating is an original feature of the U.S. unemployment benefit system. In most states, unemployment benefits are financed by taxing firms in proportion to their separations. Experience rating is a way to require employers to contribute to the payment of...

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Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002

In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two "treatment groups" for estimating the impact of the new...

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