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Michaillat, Pascal; Saez, Emmanuel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Most governments are mandated to maintain their economies at full employment. We propose that the best marker of full employment is the efficient unemployment rate, u*. We define u* as the unemployment rate that minimizes the nonproductive use of labor--both jobseeking and recruiting. The...

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Labor Market Networks and Recovery from Mass Layoffs : Evidence from the Great Recession Period

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2015

We measure the impact of labor market referral networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following … mass layoffs. Because networks can only be effective when hiring is occurring, we focus on a measure of the strength of the … some evidence that local labor market networks are linked to re-employment following mass layoffs for lower-earning workers …

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Of Markets and Marriages : A Multidisciplinary, Multibook Review Essay of Recent Work on the Causes of U.S. Poverty

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

I discuss recent books offering differing explanations for persistent U.S. poverty. Desmond (2023) argues that aid to low-income Americans is captured by more powerful market actors. I contextualize this concern as about incidence and consider both policies for changing incidence (by changing...

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Firms with Benefits? Nonwage Compensation and Implications for Firms and Labor Markets

Ouimet, Paige; Tate, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Using administrative data on health insurance, retirement, and leave benefits, we find within-firm variation accounts for a dramatically lower percentage of total variation in benefits than in wages. We also document sharply higher between-firm variation in nonwage benefits than in wages. We...

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Sticky Wages on the Layoff Margin

Davis, Steven J.; Krolikowski, Pawel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We design and field an innovative survey of unemployment insurance (UI) recipients that yields new insights about wage stickiness on the layoff margin. Most UI recipients express a willingness to accept wage cuts of 5-10 percent to save their jobs, and one third would accept a 25 percent cut....

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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

. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during …

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The Active Role of the Natural Rate of Unemployment during Cyclical Recoveries

Hall, Robert Ernest; Kudlyak, Marianna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We propose that the natural rate of unemployment has an active role in the business cycle, in contrast to the prevailing view that the rate is essentially constant. We demonstrate that this tendency to treat the natural rate as near-constant would explain the surprisingly low slope of the...

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When Institutions Interact : How the Effects of Unemployment Insurance are Shaped by Retirement Policies

Gudgeon, Matthew; Guzman, Pablo; Schmieder, Johannes; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in a first-order way on the structure of retirement policies. Using German data, we first present reduced-form evidence of these interactions, documenting large bunching in UI...

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Moral Hazard and Unemployment in Competitive Equilibrium

Rey, Patrick; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Principal-agent models take outside options, determining participation and incentive constraints, as given. We construct a general equilibrium model where workers' reservation wages and the maximum punishment acceptable before workers quit are instead determined endogenously. We simultaneously...

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Job Loss, Job Finding, and Unemployment in the U.S. Economy Over the Past Fifty Years

Hall, Robert E. - 2005

New data compel a new view of events in the labor market during a recession. Unemployment rises almost entirely because jobs become harder to find. Recessions involve little increase in the flow of workers out of jobs. Another important finding from new data is that a large fraction of workers...

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