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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity:Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increasejob search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influencesthe arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workerssend out....

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Endogenous On-the-job Search and Frictional Wage Dispersion

Hertweck, Matthias S. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Zentrum <Basel> - 2010

This paper addresses the large degree of frictional wage dispersion in US data.The standard job matching model without …-the-job searchin a stochastic job matching model. Our key result is that the inclusion of variableon-the-job search increases the …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with OutsourcingUnder Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...

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Payroll Taxes, Social Insurance and Business Cycles

Burda, Michael C.; Weder, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010

unemployment insurance, when thelatter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget …

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Social Security and Intergenerational Redistribution

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Reed, Robert R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2005

paper provides a rationale for such programsin a lifecycle framework with search and matching frictions in the labor market …

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A Positive Theory of the Income RedistributiveFocus of Social Security

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Reed, Robert R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

which explicitly accountsfor the role of the lifecycle as well as search and matching frictions in the labor market. In our …

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Aging, Unemployment, and Welfare in a Life-Cycle Model with Costly Labor Market Search

Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Reed, Robert R. - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2003

the lifecycle affects aggregate labor market activity, and in particular, unemployment. While much work has been done on … and matching in the labor market. The lifecycle of workers in conjunction with frictions in the labor market produces an … environment in which unemployment arises as a natural possibility and both young and old workers find themselves contemporaneously …

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Equilibrium Unemployment with Outsourcing andWage Solidarity Under Labour Market Imperfections

Koskela, Erkki; Stenbacka, Rune - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We evaluate the effects of outsourcing and wage solidarity on wage formation andequilibrium unemployment in a …

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Explaining Differences in Job Search OutcomesBetween Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probabilitythat employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. Thejob finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed jobseekers, and this...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies

Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited … variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment …

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