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. The unemployment rate declined steadily as well, except for upward shifts due to the late 1990s Asian Financial Crisis and … homeownership and declining unemployment are linked and that the causality runs from high homeownership leading to high unemployment … unemployment is statistically fragile, but a greater prevalence of freehold ownership and mortgaged ownership below the mean across …
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The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an … equilibrium, unemployment rates for home-owners are higher than for otherwise identical renters. Unemployment and home … more mobile than owners, the impact of home-ownership on aggregate unemployment is quantitatively small. …
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The relationships among geographical mobility, unemployment and the value of owner-occupied housing are studied in an … equilibrium, unemployment rates for home-owners are higher than for otherwise identical renters. Unemployment and home … more mobile than owners, the impact of home-ownership on aggregate unemployment is quantitatively small. -- Liquidity …
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causal relationship from homeownership to unemployment. The literature confirms a decreasing effect of homeownership on … geographical mobility of workers, but does not in general confirm that homeowners have longer unemployment spells or higher … unemployment rates. Even though this finding is related to heterogeneity in the labour force and associated selectivity effects …
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This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...
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Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596169
This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978361
Social networks may affect individual workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether neighbors' employment status influences an individual worker's employment probability after plant closure and, if hired, his wage. Our findings suggest...
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Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965012
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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