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If entitlement to UI benefits must be earned with employment, generous UI is an additional benefit to working, so, by itself, it promotes job creation. If individuals are risk neutral, then there is a UI contribution scheme that eliminates any effect of UI on employment decisions. As with...
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of job search with aggregate productivity shocks, where i) workers face incomplete markets, and ii) wages are determined …
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This study investigates the relationship between business cycle fluctuations and health in the Canadian context, given that a procyclical relationship between mortality rates and unemployment rates has already been well established in the U.S. literature. Using a fixed effects model and...
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propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for …
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propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for …
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Great Recession. Specifically, following Farmer (2013), I set forth a search framework in which households decide about …
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labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously …
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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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I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …
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Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
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