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Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program

Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...

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How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

', local development policies are fairly ineffective in raising the local unemployment outflow, because labor markets overlap …

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How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

', local development policies are fairly ineffective in raising the local unemployment outflow, because labor markets overlap …

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How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011

', local development policies are fairly ineffective in raising the local unemployment outflow, because labor markets overlap …

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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions

Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002

we examine the policy effects of the minimum wage, unemployment benefits and search frictions. …

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Reservation Wages and the Wage Flexibility Puzzle

Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479235

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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Mobility assistance programmes for unemployed workers, job search behaviour and labour market outcomes

Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; Mahlstedt, Robert - 2017

reducing unemployment leads to industrialised countries offering financial support to unemployed job seekers when searching for … and/or accepting jobs in distant regions. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the existence of these mobility … radius causes a higher geographical mobility and hence higher employment probabilities and wages. …

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Job Search, Locus of Control, and Internal Migration

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Hennecke, Juliane - 2015

Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that...

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