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Countercyclical recruiting rates and the value of jobs

Yashiv, Eran - 2015

U.S. CPS gross flows data indicate that in recessions firms actually increase their hiring rates from the pools of the unemployed and out of the labor force. Why so? The paper provides an explanation by studying the optimal recruiting behavior of the representative firm. This behavior is a...

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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? : aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries

Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David Locke; Paci, Pierella - 2011

This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...

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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries

Khanna, Gaurav - 2011

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Estimates of the Non-accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) for Hungary

Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2015

Labour market tightness, that is the ratio of jobs to the unemployed, has an impact on wage setting, which also affects inflation. Among other things, the unemployment gap, which is the difference between unemployment rate and non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU), is used to...

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...

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Firm Dynamics and Assortative Matching

Crane, Leland D. - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2014

I study the relationship between firm growth and the characteristics of newly hired workers. Using Census microdata I obtain a novel empirical result: when a given firm grows faster it hires workers with higher past wages. These results suggest that productive, fast-growing firms tend to hire...

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MEDIUM-TERM CHANGES IN THE STRUCTURE OF THE MONTHLY EARNINGS

GHIZDEANU, Ion - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 25 (2007) 2(34), pp. 60-83

The paper represents a study of the labour market functionality through the employment degree and how much of the employment improvement is reflected in the wage revenues. The study is based on the analysis and forecast of the earnings structure by branches and regions and also by property...

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Directed search, wages, and non-wage amenities : evidence from an online job board

Escudero, Verónica; Liepmann, Hannah; Vergara, Damián - 2024

vacancies attached to lower-skill occupations, with applications to vacancies attached to higher-skill occupations showing no … of directed search based on non-wage amenities. Applications to vacancies attached to lower-skill occupations are … consistent with lexicographic application preferences: amenities predict applications to these vacancies only when wages are not …

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Moral costs, the informal sector and unemployment

Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2001

While examining the macroeconomic effects of increased government control of the informal sector, this paper develops a two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. The same good is produced in the formal and in the informal sector. Moral...

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Stagnant Wages, Sectoral Misallocation and Slowing Productivity Growth

Schmöller, Michaela - 2019

I propose a two-sector endogenous growth model with heterogeneous sectoral productivity and sector-specific, nonlinear hiring costs to analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest that an upward shift in the labor...

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