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This paper considers the optimal hiring strategy of a firm that is unable to observe the productive abilities of all its applicants. Whom the firm considers as hireable, will depend crucially on the extent to which the firm can use its wage setting to mirror productivity differences. However,...
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force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the … ; labor market reforms ; participation ; unemployment ; disability …
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firm affect the worker's unemployment risk? The empirical analyses are based on three matched data sets: (i) survey data … registered unemployment. The main findings are: First, the resources and economic situation of the firm affect the workers' risks … and productive firms. Second, the effect on unemployment risks of the acquisition of skills within the firm is conditioned …
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job applicants by employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these ….) could potentially help to explain the high and persistent unemployment in Europe. …
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This paper investigates the consequences of skill loss as a result of unemployment in an efficiency wage model with …, this will result in a lengthy adjustment process with substantial long run unemployment effects. Moreover, the model is …
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This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
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unemployment to, at least, part-time work. In this paper we try to analyze the extensive margin labor supply effects of the Swedish …
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the private sector, and a unification of the different labour market programmes. -- Institutions ; incentives ; reforms …
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This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...
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To examine the macro economic effects of government tax and punishment policies, this paper develops a three-sector general quilibrium model featuring matching frictions, heterogenous abilities and an informal sector with tax evasion. The choice of education is determined endogenously. Job...
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