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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Average total gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418118
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Average total gains from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418917
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Individual and market-level effects of UI policies : evidence from Missouri
Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019
We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137594
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Individual and market-level effects of UI policies : evidence from Missouri
Karahan, Fatih; Mitman, Kurt; Moore, Brendan - 2019
We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation … market. The data indicate that the cut in Missouri significantly increased job finding rates by both raising the search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139297
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Credible research designs for minimum wage studies
Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - 2013
We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010195464
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Spillover effects of minimum wages in a two-sector search model
Moser, Christoph; Stähler, Nikolai - 2009
affected. We present a two-sector search model in which one sector is more productive than the other one and thus, pays higher …. Welfare effects are ambiguous. In principle, we cannot exclude that a minimum wage in a two-sector search model is welfare … effects of their individual job creation on aggregated search costs. -- Minimum wages ; matching models ; two sectors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811115
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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Germany : state dependence before and after the "Hartz reforms"
Königs, Sebastian - 2014
In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68% comparing to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250101
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The dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in Germany : state dependence before and after the "Hartz reforms"
Königs, Sebastian - 2014
In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. We show that there is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252047
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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany : State Dependence Before and after the 'Hartz Reforms'
Königs, Sebastian - 2014
In this article, I study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. There is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68% comparing to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057914
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The Dynamics of Social Assistance Benefit Receipt in Germany - State Dependence Before and after the 'Hartz Reforms'
Königs, Sebastian - 2014
In this article, we study state dependence in social assistance receipt in Germany using annual survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1995-2011. We show that there is considerable observed state dependence, with an average persistence rate in benefits of 68%...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058362