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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...

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Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition

Gautier, Pieter A.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2006

matching rate in the high-productivity sector can then be realized with fewer applications (and consequently fewer coordination …

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Temporary jobs and job search effort in Europe

Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2009

Using longitudinal data on individuals from the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) for eight countries during 1995-2001, I investigate temporary job contract duration and job search effort. The countries are Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain. I...

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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment

Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012

This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - In: German economic review 4 (2003) 2, pp. 139-150

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....

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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition

Gautier, Pieter A.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - 2006

We study a search model where workers can send multiple applications to high and low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase their wage offers as often as they like. We show that there is a unique equilibrium where workers mix between sending both applications...

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Evaluating the search and matching model with sticky wages

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2010

Several authors have proposed staggered wage bargaining as a way to introduce sticky wages into search and matching … a series of estimated shocks from US data into a search and matching model with sticky prices and wages. I compare the … cycle volatility and matching the lack of a long-run relationship between vacancy creation and inflation. With regard to …

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Sticky wages in search and matching models in the short and long run

Reicher, Christopher Phillip - 2011

This paper documents the short run and long run behavior of the search and matching model with staggered Nash wage …

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

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2007

simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. We structurally estimate the search cost distribution, the implied matching …

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Can insider power affect employment?

Díaz-Vázquez, Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

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