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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction

Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - 2021

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … finding, and job filling within each country. This robust set of facts guides and disciplines the development of a theory of … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment …

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An Incentive Theory of Matching

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

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Employee Referrals and Efficiency Wages

Kugler, Adriana D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This paper develops a matching model that can...

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Hiring and Firing Costs, Adverse Selection and Long-term Unemployment

Kugler, Adriana D.; Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - 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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A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

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Individual and Market-Level Effects of UI Policies: Evidence from Missouri

Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019

(market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we …

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How Cyclical Is the User Cost of Labor?

Kudlyak, Marianna - 2024

In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...

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The Importance of Two-Sided Heterogeneity for the Cyclicality of Labour Market Dynamics

Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

unemployment at large firms are generally found to be more cyclical. However, this stylised fact disappears when the composition of …

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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics

Bachmann, Ronald; David, Peggy - 2010

unemployment at large firms are generally found to be more cyclical. However, this stylised fact disappears when the composition of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278504