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We estimate an equilibrium search model with productivity dispersion between markets and structural unemployment, using … Danish data. For women, structural unemployment is relatively more important than frictional unemployment, but for men …, frictional unemployment is most important. Overall, frictional unemployment is relatively more important than in an earlier study …
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The homogeneous search equilibrium model of Mortensen (1990) and Burdett and Mortensen (1998) is extended to allow on-the-job wage growth. The extension allows an improved empirical fit to the cross-section wage distribution. The estimation problem is nonregular but tractable. Estimated...
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This paper applies an equilibrium search to study the transition from schooling to work of US high school graduates. We consider the case where there is heterogeneity in firm productivity and the number of firm types is discrete. For this case the estimation problem is non-standard and the...
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future worklessness as the unemployment rate in the local labour market increases. This descriptive analysis suggests that …
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This paper investigates the responsiveness of women’s labor supply to their husband’s loss of employment – the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative...
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outcomes. We employ a search and matching framework that allows for skill heterogeneity and differential unemployment income …
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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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We develop a model of directed technological change, frictional unemployment and migration to examine the effects of a …, an increase in the skill ratio can reduce the relative unemployment rate of skilled workers and decrease the relative …
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