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How the provision of unemployment benefits affects employment and unemployment is a debated issue. In this paper, we … aim at complementing theoretical and empirical contributions to this debate with a laboratory experiment: We simulate a … job market with search effort and labor force participation decisions while varying the maximum length of unemployment …
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This paper studies job search behavior in the midst of a pandemic recession. We use long-running panel data from the Netherlands (LISS) and complement the core survey with our own COVID-specific module, conducted in June 2020, surveying job search effort of employed as well as unemployed...
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Although New Keynesian models with labor market frictions found an increase in unemployment and a decrease in labor … volatilities of unemployment and labor market tightness are not as high as their empirical counterparts. This calls for the … volatility of unemployment and labor market tightness in response to a positive technology shock compared to the model without on …
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This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...
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We show that the inability of a standardly-calibrated labor search-and-matching model to account for labor market volatility extends beyond the U.S. to a set of OECD countries. That is, the volatility puzzle is ubiquitous. We argue cross-country data is helpful in scrutinizing between potential...
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an expected long period of unemployment make a job more valuable during recessions. I estimate the elasticity of the …
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-to-job flows and labour force entries and exits. Employed job search is shown to have a substantial impact on unemployment dynamics … but a negligible one on the level of unemployment. More on-the-job search leads to lower unemployment inflow and outflow …, i.e. a more stagnant unemployment pool. With employed job search, the stock of vacancies is more cyclically sensitive …
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understanding that their jobs still exist and that they will be recalled. We show that the resulting temporary-layoff unemployment … mostly dissipated by the end of 2020. Potential workers without jobs constitute what we call jobless unemployment. Shocks … that elevate jobless unemployment have much more persistent effects. Historical major adverse shocks, such as the financial …
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