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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P - 2002
We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
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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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Ethnic enclaves and welfare cultures: Quasi-experimental evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts – the number of individuals of the same ethnicity – and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...
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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures - Quasi-experimental Evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts - the number of individuals of the same ethnicity - and the quality of contacts - welfare use among members of the ethnic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321531
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Macroeconomic expectations of households amd professional forecasters
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2002
Economists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes Yet there has been almost no recent effort to model actual empirical expectations data; instead macroeconomists usually simply assume expectations are rational This paper shows that while...
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The epidemiology of macroeconomic expectations
Carroll, Christopher D. - 2001
explaining the deviations of household inflation and unemployment expectations from the rational expectations benchmark …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293481
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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations
Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2008
such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317906
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Stepping-stones or dead-ends? An analysis of Swedish replacement contracts
Larsson, Laura; Lindqvist, Linus; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2005
unemployment among job-seekers. Using exact matching on labour market history and personal characteristics we find positive effects … effect of the length is found on unemployment, employment or wages. Overall, the results suggest that receiving a fixed term … contract reduces the risk of future unemployment, and that a longer contract increases the position within the workplace but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317939
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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations
Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - 2007
such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321638
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Matching frictions, efficiency wages, and unemployment in the USA and the UK
Malcomson, James M.; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - 2007
This paper combines matching frictions with e¢ ciency wages to deter shirking in a model that is estimated for the USA and the UK to derive the underlying structural parameters. Methods robust to weak instruments are used to show that, for both countries, both matching frictions and efficiency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318955