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firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of … economic conditions at the time of hiring on future wages. Measured by the labor's user cost, the price of labor is …
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match to control for match quality. Using NLSY data for 1980 to 2019, we identify three channels by which hiring in a …
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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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U.S. CPS gross flows data indicate that in recessions firms actually increase their hiring rates from the pools of the … dynamic behavior of the labor share of GDP. The counter-cyclicality of hiring rates and job values, which may appear counter …
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volatility of vacancies and unemployment. This channel can be relevant if the lack of insurance is large enough so that the …
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-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies, given shocks of a plausible magnitude. We use data on the cost of vacancy creation …
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The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, it reviews the model of search and matching equilibrium and derives the properties of employment and unemployment equilibrium. Second, it applies the model to the study of employment fluctuations and to the explanation of differences in unemployment...
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vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make it more difficult, due to the … unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
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We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted for by the unprecedented extensions of...
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vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … make it easier for a firm to fill a vacancy but more vacancies at other firms should make it more difficult, due to the … unemployment has a weak positive effect on the probability of filling a vacancy, while the number of vacancies in the local labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699694