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This paper examines the structure of the labour market and unemployment in Sudan. One advantage of our analysis is that … unemployment based on Sudan Central Bureau of Statistics 2010 the Fifth Sudan Population and Housing Census 2008. We explain …, participation rates, economic activities, low skill level and high unemployment rate defined by gender and mode of living in Sudan …
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-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … of the search-matching theory. -- Job Creation ; Involuntary Unemployment ; Search-Matching ; Labor Demand …
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-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … of the search-matching theory. -- job creation ; involuntary unemployment ; search-matching ; labor demand …
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Search-matching theory has come to dominate labor economics in recent years, but few attempts have been made to compare the empirical relevance of search-matching theory to efficiency wage and bargaining theories, where employment is determined by labor demand. In this paper we formulate an...
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We study how salary history disclosures affect employer demand, and how salary history bans shape hiring and wages. We show how these effects depend on the properties of the labor market, and we measure the key properties using a novel, two-sided field experiment. Our field experiment features...
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We develop a labor demand model that encompasses pre-match hiring cost arising from tight labor markets. Through the lens of the model, we study the effect of labor market tightness on firms' labor demand by applying novel shift-share instruments to the universe of German firms. In line with...
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Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and …
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, whereby special focus is placed on unemployment duration. The results of the study indicate that in contrast to reservation … wages, offered wages decline considerably with duration of unemployment. This is the main reason that ratios of reservation … wages to offered wages increase rapidly with duration of unemployment; on average, reservation wages begin to exceed offered …
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German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data for the years 2000 to 2016, we analyse unemployment durations and unemployment …-term unemployment. Furthermore, the duration of unemployment prior to finding a new job rises with age. This pattern is particularly … between unemployment and an individual’s subsequent wage. This depressing impact is significant only for unqualified workers …
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We analyze the effect of automation and offshorability on unemployment duration and post-unemployment outcomes such as … wages and employment stability. Our rich administrative data allow us to evaluate the importance of providing unemployment …
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