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The role of aggregate preferences for labor supply - evidence from low-paid employment

Haywood, Luke; Neumann, Michael - 2017

Labor supply in the market for low-paid jobs in Germany is strongly influenced by tax exemptions - even for individuals to whom these exemptions do not apply. We present compelling evidence that an individual's choice set depends on other workers' preferences because firms cater their job offers...

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Too rich to do the dirty work? : wealth effects on the demand for good jobs

Haywood, Luke - 2014

non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential … utility of jobs in a labour market with informational frictions. Changes in wealth may then affect preferences for different … increase with wealth shocks. Duration models are estimated based on the reduced form of a search model. Wealth may play an …

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The effects of labor supply shocks on labor market outcomes : evidence from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Mansour, Hani - 2010

Since September 2000, as a result of mobility restrictions, the supply of Palestinian workers competing for local jobs in the West Bank has increased by about fifty percent. This paper takes advantage of this unique natural experiment to study the effects of labor supply shocks on labor market...

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Locus of control and job search strategies

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his...

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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach

Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009

The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...

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Social networks, job search methods and reservation wages : evidence for Germany

Caliendo, Marco; Schmidl, Ricarda; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2010

In this paper we analyze the relationship between social networks and the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. It is believed that networks convey useful information in the job search process such that individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal...

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Intra-household risk sharing and job search over the business cycle

Wang, Haomin - 2018

This paper studies the extent to which working couples can insure one another against cyclical fluctuations in the labor market and examines the implications of joint household decision-making for cyclical fluctuations in the unemployment rate. For this purpose, I provide a dynamic life-cycle...

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Re-employment probabilities for Spanish men: what role does the unemployment benefit system play?

Jenkins, Stephen; García Serrano, Carlos - 2000

We analyse the re-employment probabilities of almost 330,000 Spanish men aged 20-59 years who began a unemployment insurance (UI) spell between February 1987 and November 1991 using data derived from the national unemployment benefit administration database (SIPRE) and discrete time duration...

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Hours risk and wage risk : repercussions over the life-cycle

Jessen, Robin; König, Johannes - 2020

-cycle insurance impact is much smaller. At the mean, a positive hours shock of one standard deviation raises life-time income by 10 …%, while a similar wage shock raises it by 12%. …

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Optimal income taxation of married couples : an empirical analysis of joint and individual taxation

Haan, Peter (contributor); Navarro, Dolores (contributor) - 2008

composition within the household. -- Optimal taxation of married couples ; joint taxation ; labor supply estimation …

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