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Labour market inefficiency and frictional unemployment in Australia and its States: A stochastic frontier approach
Bodman, PM - 1999
This paper provides estimates of labour market inefficiency and the frictional unemployment rate for Australia and its States over the period January 1978 to December 1997. These estimates are derived from parametric statistical models of employment growth in which technical inefficiencies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448148
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Essays in Labor Markets, Education and Migration in Developing Countries.
Pugatch, Todd M. - 2011
This dissertation consists of three essays in labor and development economics. The first essay, “Bumpy Rides: School to Work Transitions in South Africa,” quantifies the importance of the option to re-enroll in the school to work transition of South African youth. I estimate a structural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476664
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Re-employment Probabilities and Wage Offer Function for Russian Labor Market
Smirnova, Natalia V. - 2003
This research addresses labor market transformation in Russia. It elaborates on the theory of job search and focuses on the following issues: (1) evaluation of the re-employment probabilities (hazard rates) for different socio-economic groups; and (2) estimation of wage offer distribution for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477075
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JOB SEARCH EXPERIENCES: A WITHIN-PERSON EXAMINATION OF JOB SEARCH SELF-EFFICACY, BEHAVIORS, AND OUTCOME
Liu, Songqi - 2011
A dynamic self-regulatory perspective is useful to explain within- and between-person variations in job search behaviors (e.g., Barber, Daly, Giannantonio, & Phillips, 1994; Kanfer, Wanberg, Kantrowitz, 2001). However, few studies have incorporated models and designs appropriate for addressing when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450738
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Job Competition over the Business Cycle
Chasamboulli, Andri N. - 2005
My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment over the business cycle. I am interestedin understanding the "over-qualification" of workers that occurs during periods of high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450968
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Can subsidized employment tackle long-term unemployment? Experimental evidence from North Macedonia
Armand, Alex; Carneiro, Pedro; Tagliati, Federico; Xia, … - 2020
Este documento estudia el impacto de un experimento en Macedonia del Norte en el cual individuos en paro de larga duración que participan en un programa de empleo subvencionado son seleccionados de manera aleatoria para participar en una entrevista de trabajo. Los empleadores que contratan a un...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012523798
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The Organization of Education
Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2007
(Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471898
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A dynamic approach to Germany's unemployment problem
Bachmann, Ronald - 2007
Modell mit skill mismatch und endogener Jobzerstörung zu einer längeren erwarteten Dauer des der Arbeitslosigkeit folgenden … Arbeiterflüsse in die Arbeitslosigkeit während einer Rezession der Rückgang der Einstellungsneigung von Firmen ist, was auch aus dem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467002
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Arbeitsmarktpolitik in Deutschland : seit Jahrzehnten in der Sackgasse
Berthold, Norbert; Berchem, Sascha von - 2005
der deutschen Arbeitsmarktpolitik hin zu mehr Effizienz und weniger Arbeitslosigkeit zu vermitteln.Doch hat eine … keinen echten Beitrag zum Abbau der Arbeitslosigkeit leisten. In vielen Bereichen blieben die Reformschritte ein bloßes … der Zusammenlegung von Arbeitslosenhilfe und Sozialhilfe.All dem stellen die Autoren ein Reformkonzept entgegen, das …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467624
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Variable Search Intensity with Coordination Unemployment
Kaas, Leo - 2010
This paper analyzes an urn–ball matching model in which workers decide how intensively they sample job openings and apply at a stochastic number of suitable vacancies. The model allows for tractable equilibrium characterization with a continuous search intensity margin. Equilibrium is not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471656