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these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …
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negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
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In this paper, we compile a unique historical dataset that records strike activity in the British engineering industry from 1920 to 1970. These data have the advantage of containing a fairly homogenous set of companies and workers, covering a long period with varying labour market conditions,...
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three or fewer years, but then reaches a level after which there is little variation by duration of residence. Unemployment …
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A duration model based on the time on Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits instead of a model based on the time till re …) Proportional Hazard model to account for an upper bound on the duration. We use a modified mover-stayer model to this end and … unemployment duration. We also derive the expected UI-benefit costs implied by the model for some typical unemployed individuals. …
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; 6) time devoted to job search is fairly constant regardless of unemployment duration for those who are ineligible for UI …. A nonparametric Monte Carlo technique suggests that the relationship between job search effort and the duration of …
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This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardized questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
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Researchers often identify degree effects by including degree attainment (D) and years of schooling (S) in a wage model, yet the source of independent variation in these measures is not well understood. We argue that S is negatively correlated with ability among degree-holders because the most...
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Median instructional spending per full-time equivalent (FTE) student at American colleges and universities has grown at a slower rate the median spending per FTE in a number of other expenditure categories during the last two decades. We use institutional level panel data and a variety of...
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Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The treatment is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no participation...
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