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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search
Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009
We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269565
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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result. With more than one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268976
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Low-wage jobs: A means for employment integration of the unemployed? Evidence from administrative data in Germany and Austria
Grün, Carola; Mahringer, Helmut; Rhein, Thomas - 2011
: the IAB employment sample (IABS) for Germany, and a combination of social security data from the Austrian Social Insurance … dependence is found, at least for Germany. As to the risk of falling back into unemployment, the results suggest that even low … die Niedriglohnepisoden in Österreich kürzer als in Deutschland sind, was auf eine höhere Arbeitskräftefluktuation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281838
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Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Labor Market: Employment and Wage Differentials by Skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377322
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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result. With more than one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292209
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The Fall in German Unemployment: A Flow Analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018
participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873446
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The fall in German unemployment: A flow analysis
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Launov, Andrey; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2018
participation, inequality and welfare in Germany. Unemployment fell because the Hartz IV reform induced a large fraction of the long …. Overall we find that Germany increased welfare as unemployment fell. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943096
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Earnings losses and labor mobility over the lifecycle
Jung, Philip; Kuhn, Nikolas Moritz - 2012
Extensive literature demonstrates that workers with high tenure suffer large and persistent earnings losses when they are displaced. We study the reasons behind these losses in a tractable search model that includes a lifecycle dimension, endogenous job mobility, and worker- and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290018
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Why are so many disabled individuals not working in Spain? A job search approach
Silva, José I.; Vall-Castello, Judit - 2012
Unlike other disability systems in developed economies, the Spanish system allows partially disabled individuals to work while receiving disability benefits. The puzzle is, however, that employment rates in this group of individuals are very low. The aim of this paper is to understand the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282518
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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers
Dolado, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2003
This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273737