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Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...

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Self-employment and the local business cycle

Svaleryd, Helena - 2013

opportunities open up and encourage the set-up of new firms. In downturns, self-employment may be a way to avoid unemployment. The …

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Family job search and wealth : the added worker effect revisited

García Peréz, José Ignacio; Rendón, Sílvio - 2020

We propose and estimate a model of family job search and wealth accumulation with data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This dataset reveals a very asymmetric labor market for household members who share that their job finding is stimulated by their partners' job...

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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019

certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the … certain time in unemployment will leave unemployment before training while others will be trained later. We are interested in …

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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Empirical Monte Carlo evidence on estimation of Timing-of-Events models

Lombardi, Stefano; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2020

approach provides accurate effect estimates, especially if time-varying variation in the unemployment rate of the local labor …

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The cyclicality of labor force participation flows : the role of labor supply elasticities and wage rigidity

Cairó, Isabel; Fujita, Shigeru; Morales-Jiménez, Camilo - 2020

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Vacancy chains

Elsby, Michael W. L.; Michaels, Ryan; Ratner, David D. - 2020

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Mandatory integration agreements for unemployed job seekers: a randomized controlled field experiment in Germany

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Stephan, Gesine - 2021

Integration Agreement (IA) are contracts between the employment agency and the unemployed, nudging the latter to comply with rules on search behavior. We designed and implemented an RCT involving thousands of newly unemployed workers, randomizing at the individual level both the timing of the IA...

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2017

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However … search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante threat of sanctions. Based on a large inflow sample into unemployment … unemployment duration and the quality of job matches, in conjunction with the possibility to report sick. We estimate multispell …

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