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Job Search with Nonparticipation
Frijters, Paul; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2004
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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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations
Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002
negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262563
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A good time to stay out? Strikes and the business cycle
Devereux, Paul J.; Hart, Robert A. - 2008
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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Prediction markets in theory and practice
Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2006
Prediction Markets, sometimes referred to as information markets, idea futures or event futures, are markets where participants trade contracts whose payoffs are tied to a future event, thereby yielding prices that can be interpreted as market-aggregated forecasts. This article summarizes the...
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The Employment, Unemployment and Unemployment Compensation Benefits of Immigrants
Hurst, Michael E.; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
three or fewer years, but then reaches a level after which there is little variation by duration of residence. Unemployment …
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Modelling the time on unemployment insurance benefits
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2007
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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Job search and unemployment insurance: new evidence from time use data
Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2008
; 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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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
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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Interpreting degree effects in the returns to education
Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Light, Audrey - 2009
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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Do expenditures other than instructional expenditures affect graduation and persistence rates in American higher education?
Webber, Douglas A.; Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2009
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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