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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446155
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796511
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Effects of credit supply on unemployment and inequality
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Dinopoulos, Elias; Unel, Bulent - 2016
The Great Recession, which was preceded by the financial crisis, resulted in higher unemployment and inequality. We …, tighter credit leads to lower output, lower number of vacancies, and higher directed-search unemployment. Where workers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011539874
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Training and search on the job
Lentz, Rasmus; Roys, Nicolas - 2016
The paper studies human capital accumulation over workers' careers in an on the job search setting with heterogenous firms. In renegotiation proof employment con- tracts, more productive firms provide more training. Both general and specific training induce higher wages within jobs, and with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585846
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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills
Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018
worker-job complementarity, we estimate how interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills map into job offers, unemployment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022569
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How should unemployment insurance vary over the business cycle?
Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt - 2019
We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) over the business cycle using a heterogeneous agent job search model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137069
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Mismatch unemployment during COVID-19 and the post-pandemic labor shortages
Birinci, Serdar; Mercan, Yusuf; See, Kurt - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015070160
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Optimal Unemployment Insurance in Search Equilibrium
Fredriksson, Peter; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
Should unemployment compensation be paid indefinitely at a fixed rate or should it decline (or increase) over a worker …'s unemployment spell? We examine these issues using an equilibrium model of search unemployment. The model features worker … optimal insurance program implies a declining sequence of unemployment compensation over the spell of unemployment. Numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321764
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The aggregate labor market effects of the Swedish knowledge lift program
Albrecht, James; van den Berg, Gerard; Vroman, Susan - 2008
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of low-skill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317901
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Active labor market policy effects for women in Europe: A survey
Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard - 2007
We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317937