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Is the Threat of Reemployment Services More Effective than the Services Themselves? Experimental Evidence from the UI System
Black, Dan A. - 2002
This paper examines the effect of the Worker Profiling and Reemployment Services (WPRS) system. This program 'profiles' UI claimants to determine their probability of benefit exhaustion (or expected spell duration) and then provides mandatory employment and training services to claimants with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469890
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The Importance of Being an Optimist : Evidence from Labor Markets
Kaniel, Ron - 2010
Dispositional optimism is a personality trait associated with individuals who believe, either rightly or wrongly, that in general good things tend to happen to them more often than bad things. Using a novel longitudinal data set that tracks the job search performance of MBA students, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462328
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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456335
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458392
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459022
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458533
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Why Is an Elite Undergraduate Education Valuable? Evidence from Israel
Lang, Kevin - 2011
In this paper we compare the labor market performance of Israeli students who graduated from one of the leading universities, Hebrew University (HU), with those who graduated from a professional undergraduate college, College of Management Academic Studies (COMAS). Our results support a model in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461928
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Technology, Trade, and Adjustment to Immigration in Israel
Gandal, Neil - 2000
In the early 1990s Israel experienced a large and concentrated surge of immigration from the former Soviet Union. Most … immigration shock, existing research has found little evidence that it put downward pressure on Israeli wages. In this paper we … immigration inflow: the adoption of global changes in production technology, and national changes in the mix of traded goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470774
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Israel’s Immigration Story : Winners and Losers
Razin, Assaf - 2018
The exodus of Soviet Jews to Israel in the 1990s was a unique event. The immigration wave was distinctive for its large … high skilled cohort, and its quick integration into the domestic labor market. Immigration also changed the entire economic … Union within a short time, is also relevant for the current debate about winners and losers from immigration. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453431