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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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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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I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …
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We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which …
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Information asymmetries can prevent markets from operating efficiently. An important example is the labor market, where employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine theoretically and with laboratory experiments three key questions related to hiring via...
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financial incentives on the job search behavior and labor market integration of unemployed workers. We show that promoting … mobility - as intended - causes job seekers to increase their search radius, apply for and accept distant jobs. At the same … time, local job search is reduced with adverse consequences for reemployment and earnings. These unintended negative …
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We propose a highly tractable way of analyzing business cycles in an environment with random job search both off- and … which OJS amplifies and propagates aggregate shocks: (i) a higher estimated elasticity of the matching function, when …
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We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search …
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How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …
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consider a model of on-the-job search where firms offer promotion wage contracts to workers of different abilities, which is …
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