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The determinants and consequences of unemployed workers' wage demands

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2010

as women, tend to systematically demand lower wages. Also, we find that workers with high wage demands are contacted by …

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The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes

Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2017

The paper studies how social connections affect firm-level hiring decisions and performance. We characterize the social connections of firms' employees using register data and for causal identification we use job displacements, which create directed positive shocks towards connected firms by...

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On-the-job search and the cyclical dynamics of the labor market

Krause, Michael U.; Lubik, Thomas A. - 2004

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where workers can engage in search while on the job. We show that on-the-job search is a key component in explaining labor market dynamics in models of equilibrium unemployment. The model predicts fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor...

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Job separation behavior of welfare recipients: results from a unique case study

Gunderson, Jill Marie; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2004

This paper uses a unique personnel data set to explore job separation behavior among welfare hires. Our results indicate that welfare hires are no less stable than similar nonwelfare hires; however, time until separation does differ across welfare status by reason for separation. We also found...

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Displacement, asymmetric information and heterogeneous human capital

Hu, Luojia; Taber, Christopher - 2008

In a seminal paper Gibbons and Katz (1991; GK) develop and empirically test an asymmetric information model of the labor market. The model predicts that wage losses following displacement should be larger for layouts than for plant closings, which was borne out by data from the Displaced Workers...

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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities

Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Lin, Jeffrey - 2006

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The impact of Mexican immigrants on US wage structure

Toussaint-Comeau, Maude - 2007

areas have had no effect on the relative wages of very low-skill (high school dropouts). Rather, Mexican workers do affect … relative wages for high school graduates. Whereas Card and Lewis' study uses variations across geographies, this paper … relationship between the composition of Mexican immigrants across occupations/industries and average wages in the occupations …

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Job search with bidder memories

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Menzio, Guido; Smith, Eric - 2009

This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over workers without such attachments. Firms account for this...

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The labor market consequences of gender differences in job search

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2008

This paper studies gender differences in labor market outcomes using data from an Internetbased CV database. The women in the database get fewer firm contacts than men, and we show that this is partly explained by differences in education, experience and other skills, is not explained by...

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Vacancy referrals, job search and the duration of unemployment: A randomized experiment

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...

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