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The Costs of Job Displacement over the Business Cycle and Its Sources : Evidence from Germany
Schmieder, Johannes; Wachter, Till von; Heining, Jörg - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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The Reservation Wage of Unemployed Persons in the Federal Republic of Germany : Theory and Empirical Tests
Franz, Wolfgang - 1980
ambiguity of some explanatory variables. The data basis are unemployed persons leaving the unemployment register within a given … unemployment compensation play minor roles …
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Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models : A Quantitative Assessment
Hornstein, Andreas - 2007
Standard search and matching models of equilibrium unemployment, once properly calibrated, can generate only a small …
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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance
Shimer, Robert - 2006
welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …
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A Contribution to the Empirics of Reservation Wages
Krueger, Alan B. - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self-reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …
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A Patchwork Safety Net : A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Fishback, Price V. - 2010
Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...
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Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs since the 1960s : Which Institutions Really Mattered?
Allard, Gayle - 2006
harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects …
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Prior research, primarily based on lab experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than males and could be more inclined towards collaboration, instead. Were these findings to generalize to adults across the workforce, there could be profound implications for...
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Within-Firm Pay Inequality and Productivity
Wallskog, Melanie; Bloom, Nicholas; Ohlmacher, Scott; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Combining confidential Census worker and firm data, we find three key results. First, employees at more productive firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for...
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Size Matters : Matching Externalities and the Advantages of Large Labor Markets
Moretti, Enrico; Yi, Moises - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Economists have long hypothesized that large and thick labor markets facilitate the matching between workers and firms. We use administrative data from the LEHD to compare the job search outcomes of workers originally in large and small markets who lost their jobs due to a firm closure. We...
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