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The geography of job creation and job destruction
Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - 2021
, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012651396
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Minimum wage increases and vacancies
Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022
Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific county- level vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187552
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Minimum wage increases and vacancies
Kudlyak, Marianna; Tasci, Murat; Tüzemen, Didem - 2022
Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job vacancy postings. Utilizing occupation-specific countylevel vacancy data from the Conference Board's Help Wanted Online for 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192234
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Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment
Martellini, Paolo - 2019
We revisit the hypothesis that labor market fluctuations are driven by shocks to the discount rate. Using a model in which the UE and the EU rates are endogenous, we show that an increase in the discount rate leads to a decline in both the UE and the EU rates. In the data, though, the UE and EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867149
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Revisiting the Hypothesis of High Discounts and High Unemployment
Martellini, Paolo - 2019
We revisit the hypothesis that labor market fluctuations are driven by shocks to the discount rate. Using a model in which the UE and the EU rates are endogenous, we show that an increase in the discount rate leads to a decline in both the UE and the EU rates. In the data, though, the UE and EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868079
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Job search during the covid-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419555
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Revisiting the hypothesis of high discounts and high unemployment
Martellini, Paolo; Menzio, Guido; Visschers, Ludo - 2019
We revisit the hypothesis that labor market fluctuations are driven by shocks to the discount rate. Using a model in which the UE and the EU rates are endogenous, we show that an increase in the discount rate leads to a decline in both the UE and the EU rates. In the data, though, the UE and EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026394
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Job search during the COVID-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213681
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The geography of job creation and job destruction
Kuhn, Moritz; Manovskii, Iourii; Qiu, Xincheng - 2021
, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment … across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012663064
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177