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Human Capital Investment with Competitive Labor Search

Kaas, Leo; Zink, Stefan - 2021

We study human capital accumulation in an environment of competitive search. Given that unemployed workers can default on their education loans, skilled individuals with a larger debt burden prefer riskier but better paid careers than is socially desirable. A higher level of employment risk in...

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Job Placement Via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies : Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany

Ayaita, Adam; Grund, Christian; Pütz, Lisa - 2021

Employment agencies aim to match individuals to appropriate jobs. There are public and private employment agencies, which co-exist in many countries. Selection effects may be relevant in the sense that private agencies potentially engage in 'cream-skimming' by prioritizing highly qualified...

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Does Performance Information Affect Job Seekers in Selecting Private Providers in Voucher-Based Almp Programs?

Gerdes, Christer - 2015

One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...

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Efficiency in a Search and Matching Economy with a Competitive Informal Sector

Charlot, Olivier - 2012

We consider a dual labor market with a frictional formal sector and a competitive informal sector. We show that the size of the informal sector is generally too large compared to the optimal allocation of the workers. It follows that our results give a rationale to informality-reducing policies

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Job Competition and the Wage Curve

Longhi, Simonetta - 2010

wages; the most widely accepted theoretical explanations interpret the unemployment rate as a measure of job competition …. This paper proposes new ways of measuring job competition, alternative to the unemployment rate, and finds that the … negative relationship still holds when job competition is measured following the job search literature. While for men the wage …

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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

Robalino, David A. - 2011

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...

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In-Work Benefits and Unemployment

Tonin, Mirco - 2011

In-work benefits are becoming an increasingly relevant labour market policy, gradually expanding in scope and geographical coverage. This paper investigates the equilibrium impact of in-work benefits and contrasts it with the traditional partial equilibrium analysis. We find under which...

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Monitoring, Sanctions and Front-Loading of Job Search in a Non-Stationary Model

Cockx, Bart - 2011

We develop and estimate a non-stationary job search model to evaluate a scheme that monitors job search effort and sanctions insured unemployed whose effort is deemed insufficient. The model reveals that such schemes provide incentives to the unemployed to front-load search effort prior to...

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Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers : Are They Substitutes?

Longhi, Simonetta - 2011

The job search literature suggests that on-the-job search reduces the probability of unemployed people finding a job. However, there is no evidence that employed and unemployed job seekers are similar or apply for the same jobs. We combine the Labour Force Survey and the British Household Panel...

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Is Longer Unemployment Rewarded with Longer Job Tenure?

Kohara, Miki - 2012

This paper examines whether or not a prolonged unemployment period can raise the quality of job matching after unemployment. We focus on job tenure as an indicator of a good quality job match after unemployment. We match two sets of Japanese administrative data compiled by the public employment...

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