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Endogenous job contact networks

Galeotti, Andrea; Merlino, Luca Paolo - 2010

We develop a model where workers, anticipating the possibility of unemployment, invest in connections to access …

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Unemployment and endogenous reallocation over the business cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - 2013

We build an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model of unemployment in heterogeneous … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a … negatively-sloped Beveridge curve. Moreover, the model exhibits unemployment duration dependence, which (when calibrated to long …

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Moral costs, the informal sector and unemployment

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

, sector division, unemployment and welfare. …

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Friends' networks and job finding rates

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2011

Social interactions have important consequences for labour market outcomes. Yet the growing literature has relied on indirect definitions of networks. We present the first evidence based on direct information on friends' networks. We address issues of correlated effects with instrumental...

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Employed and unemployed job seekers: Are they substitutes?

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

The job search literature suggests that an increase in the proportion of job seekers who are employed reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is little evidence indicating that employed and unemployed job seekers have similar observed characteristics or that...

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Explaining differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job, and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this...

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Differences in employment histories between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2010

by comparing their individual characteristics and past (un)employment and job histories. Since the BHPS does not directly …

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Occupational change and mobility among employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use data from the Labour Force Survey to show that employed and unemployed job seekers in Great Britain originate from different occupations and find jobs in different occupations. We find substantial differences in occupational mobility between job seekers: employed job seekers are most...

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