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Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022

prevalence of social networks in job search there is as yet no consensus on the mechanisms for why referrals are so important: an …

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Endogenous Wage and Capital Dispersion, On-the-Job Search and the Matching Technology

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - 2002

dynamic features of job-worker flows, wage dispersion and mobility as well as search on the job. The basic model is also … extended to endogenise firms? optimal investment in job-specific capital and search efforts undertaken by both employed and … identification of the wage offer distribution and may also bias subsequent inferences about underlying search cost parameters. …

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

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Disaggregate Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....

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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia

Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - 2002

Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment adjustment. We investigate the impact of the changing labor market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched...

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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impacts of labour market policy reforms /

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of the workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment...

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Wage structure and labour mobility in the West German private sector 1993-2000

Alda, Holger; Bellmann, Lutz - 2005

Since the early 90's the West German firms have to deal with sharp changes of economic environment: the German Unification, the emerging competitors in the east European countries and the deregulation of several labour market institutions. We analyse the wage structure, the wage changes and the...

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Outsourcing of unionized firms and the impact of labor market policy reforms

Koskela, Erkki; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008

This paper shows that outsourcing of parts of workforce in unionized firms leads to wage moderation both in the case of strategic and flexible outsourcing and as long as the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the...

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply … dynamic optimization theory. We develop a general framework for the labor market where the search for a job involves dynamic … decision making under uncertainty. It can be specialized to be in agreement with most published research using labor search …

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The intensive margin puzzle and labor market adjustment costs

Wesselbaum, Dennis - 2011

Cycle model and introduce search and matching frictions as well as adjustment costs along the extensive and the intensive …

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