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Statistical Discrimination and Duration Dependence in the Job Finding Rate

Jarosch, Gregor - 2018

This paper models a frictional labor market where employers endogenously discriminate against the long term unemployed. The estimated model replicates recent experimental evidence which documents that interview invitations for observationally equivalent workers fall sharply as unemployment...

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Curse of Anonymity or Tyranny of Distance? The Impacts of Job-Search Support in Urban Ethiopia

Abebe, Girum - 2016

We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated respondents receives a subsidy to cover the transport costs of job search. Another group participates in a job application workshop where their skills are certified and they...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456268

Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires

Gertler, Mark - 2016

Macroeconomic models often incorporate some form of wage stickiness to help account for employment fluctuations. However, a recent literature calls in to question this approach, citing evidence of new hire wage cyclicality from panel data studies as evidence for contractual wage flexibility for...

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Decomposing Duration Dependence in a Stopping Time Model

Alvarez, Fernando E. - 2016

We develop a dynamic model of transitions in and out of employment. A worker finds a job at an optimal stopping time, when a Brownian motion with drift hits a barrier. This implies that the duration of each worker's jobless spells has an inverse Gaussian distribution. We allow for arbitrary...

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Long-Term Unemployment and the Great Recession : The Role of Composition, Duration Dependence, and Non-Participation

Kroft, Kory - 2014

We explore the extent to which composition, duration dependence, and labor force non-participation can account for the sharp increase in the incidence of long-term unemployment (LTU) during the Great Recession. We first show that compositional shifts in demographics, occupation, industry,...

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Recall and Unemployment

Fujita, Shigeru - 2013

Using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) covering 1990-2011, we document that a surprisingly large number of workers return to their previous employer after a jobless spell and experience more favorable labor market outcomes than job switchers. Over 40% of all...

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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants

Goel, Deepti - 2009

We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at all percentiles except the highest and lowest. The...

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Immigration, Search, and Redistribution : A Quantitative Assessment of Native Welfare

Battisti, Michele - 2014

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

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The Return to English in a Non-English Speaking Country : Russian Immigrants and Native Israelis in Israel

Lang, Kevin - 2006

We use a unique sample of Russian immigrants and natives in Israel to examine the return to English knowledge. In cross-section estimates there is a significant return to English knowledge for both immigrants and natives with high levels of education. Language acquisition is an important element...

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Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Gould, Eric D. - 2004

This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration in elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high school. To identify the causal effect of immigrant children on their peers, we exploit random...

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