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of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of … Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay inthe city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who marriedoutside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …
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-the-jobmobility, spatially-differentiated search or heterogeneity ofjobs. Residential mobility does notappear to explain the shape of the …In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective.We have examined under which …
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In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is … argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees … search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival rate of workplaces is much higher than the arrival rate of jobs …
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The focus of this chapter is to consider new developments in the search and matching literature where wages, quit … to highlight possible market failures but also to explain how on-the-job search and employee turnover fundamentally …
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In this paper we investigate the incentives of unemployed workers to wait for a recall when recall probabilities are endogenously determined by the waiting decisions of others. Because of a positive externality that arises when workers seek new employment, an excessive number of workers choose...
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This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …
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This paper studies the extent to which the cyclicality of gross and net occupational mobility shapes that of aggregate … mobility and unemployment duration over the long run and business cycle. To interpret this evidence, we develop an analytically … countercyclical net occupational mobility, the large volatility of unemployment and the cyclical properties of the unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219107
This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes … market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We then ask how models with search improve our understanding of these data …. Our results are mixed. Search models are useful for interpreting the behavior of some additional data series, but search …
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mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational … mobility. Idiosyncratic occupational mobility is the main driver of cyclical earnings risk, mainly due to cyclical shifts in … the returns to this mobility. This is the main reason why the sullying effects of recessions are long-lasting. These …
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mobility or mobility shocks, we propose a multi-sector business cycle model with on-the-job search and endogenous occupational … mobility. Idiosyncratic occupational mobility is the main driver of cyclical earnings risk, mainly due to cyclical shifts in … the returns to this mobility. This is the main reason why the sullying effects of recessions are long-lasting. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412799