The paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium search model where 'goods' are produced exclusively in the market … and 'services' are produced both in the market and within the households. We use the model to examine how unemployment and … services reduces unemployment whereas a tax cut on goods has no effect. A reform involving tax differentiation, with lower …

workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and … unemployment duration data. Our results show that the exit rate from unemployment increases with the arrival rate of job contacts …In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed …

new jobs. Workers’ chances for recall should influence their job search strategies, so the rates of exit from unemployment … by these two routes should be directly related. We solve a job search model to establish, in theory, a negative … new job hazard rates. -- Lay-off ; Recall ; Job search ; Hazard rate ; Proportional hazard model ; Unobserved …

workers and on their exit rate from unemployment. For that purpose, we specify a structural search model with fixed and … unemployment duration data. Our results show that the exit rate from unemployment increases with the arrival rate of job contacts …In this paper, we examine the disincentive effects of the public employment service on the search effort of unemployed …

We question whether the use of social networks to exit unemployment matters in Cameroon. We develop an empirical model … networks to get a job is effective and in average, around 48% of job seekers use this channel as a job search method. Moreover …

market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time … expected unemployment duration, while improving the quality of the resultant job. Participation in ALMP raises the probability …We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor …

search theoretic model: as the standardization of an occupation increases or the diversity of tasks decreases, search costs … decrease and the optimal search intensity increases. However, the model reveals that higher search intensities can have …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job … separations and on-the-job search quantitatively accounts for all the documented empirical regularities. The model also … quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment …

We use a novel data set on firm vacancies and job seekers from a Mexican government job placement service to analyze … whether changes in matching frictions can explain the large and persistent increase in Mexican unemployment after the 2008 … unemployment rate. Hence, these results suggest that changes in matching frictions cannot explain most of the increase in …

, rural–urban immigration and on-the-job search, and unemployment changes in China. We used non-linear estimation and the …In the traditional labor supply–demand approach, unemployment usually results from a lack of labor demand or excess of … labor supply. However, in urban China, unemployment coexists with a conflicting phenomenon, shortage of workers in firms. In …