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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories
Kudlyak, Marianna - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity : Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José L.; … - 2021
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003
Myck, Michal; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - 2021
The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment...
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav - 2011
This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...
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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects : Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2008
-specific unemployment rates in 1997. The required nominal wage reductions range from 8.8 to 12.2% and are the higher the lower the employees …
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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure
Autor, David H. - 2009
High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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Search and Multiple Jobholding
Lalé, Etienne - 2019
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...
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In-Work Benefits and Unemployment
Tonin, Mirco - 2011
of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …
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Giving Up Job Search During a Recession : The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on the South African Labour Market
Verick, Sher - 2011
using the micro-data, this paper shows that this state of non-searching unemployment or discouragement has increased more … some of the jobless with considerable movements between the two categories of unemployment. These findings from the first … unemployment, which includes discouraged workers. In response to these labour market challenges, the government should further …
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