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Measuring heterogeneity in job finding rates among the nonemployed using labor force status histories
Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - 2014
We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440544
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Atypical work and employment continuity
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - 2009
Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269383
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Housing and the labor market: time to move and aggregate unemployment
Rupert, Peter; Wasmer, Etienne - 2009
The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271224
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics: The chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273099
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Atypical work and employment continuity
Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher James - 2009
-ended work ; employment continuity ; unemployment ; inactivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824964
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"Google it!" : forecasting the US unemployment rate with a Google job search index
D'Amuri, Francesco; Marcucci, Juri - 2010
the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our … the GI outperform the traditional ones in predicting the monthly unemployment rate, even in most state-level forecasts and … ; US Unemployment ; Time Series Models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702857
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Employed and unemployed job seekers : are they substitutes?
Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark P. - 2011
unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310066
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325992
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Paying to avoid recession : using reenlistment to estimate the cost of unemployment
Borgschulte, Mark; Martorell, Paco - 2016
This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment … home-state unemployment rate. Comparing these estimates to realized losses in post-service civilian earnings resulting from … exiting the military during times of high unemployment suggests that mitigating factors (e.g., leisure, private and public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450439
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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2007
The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labour market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal and quantitative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009736641