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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 1998
increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321785
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325530
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On-the-Job Search and Sorting
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N.; van Vuuren, Aico - 2005
This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325559
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Sickness Absence and Search Unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321523
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Worker Absenteeism in Search Equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321617
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Unemployment and Search Externalities in a Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Heterogeneous Workers
Gautier, Pieter A. - 1999
This discussion paper has resulted in an article in 'Economica', 2002, 69(273), 21-40.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324597
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273960
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Sickness absence and search unemployment
Holmlund, Bertil - 2004
The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and nonparticipation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261222
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Worker absenteeism in search equilibrium
Engström, Per; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005
The paper presents a tractable general equilibrium model of search unemployment that incorporates absence from work as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261377
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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/10010295242