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Imperfect information, wage formation, and the employability of the unemployed

Eriksson, Stefan - 2002

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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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands

Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2009

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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Ranking of job applicants, on-the-job search, and persistent unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2000

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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Skill loss, ranking of job applicants, and the dynamics of unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan - 2001

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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Empirical labor search models : a survey

Eckstein, Zwi; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2003

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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Evaluation of the Swedish earned income tax credit

Edmark, Karin; Liang, Che-yuan; Mörk, Eva; Selin, Håkan - 2012

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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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - 2009

the private sector, and a unification of the different labour market programmes. -- Institutions ; incentives ; reforms …

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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment : some cross-country evidence

Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2009

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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Competition between employed and unemployed job applicants : Swedish evidence

Eriksson, Stefan; Lagerström, Jonas - 2004

We use the Swedish Job Applicant Database to empirically investigate whether being unemployed per se reduces the probability to get contacted by a firm. This database contains personal characteristics and preferences over the type of job the applicant wants to find. The data is submitted both by...

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Stepping-stones for the unemployed : the effect of temporary jobs on the duration until regular work

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Heyma, … - 2004

Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour … unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …

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