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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?
Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372979
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Labor market reforms and unemployment dynamics
Murtin, Fabrice; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2014
In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks … benefits and product market deregulation stand out as the most prominent policy levers for unemployment reduction. All other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010254829
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Turbulence and the employment experience of older workers
Lalé, Etienne - 2016
This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517164
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325530
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Labor market reforms and unemployment dynamics
Murtin, Fabrice; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2014
In this paper, we quantify the contribution of labor market reforms to unemployment dynamics in nine OECD countries … the heterogeneous-worker mechanism proposed by Robin (2011) to explain unemployment volatility by productivity shocks … benefits and product market deregulation stand out as the most prominent policy levers for unemployment reduction. All other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368197
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Search and Multiple Jobholding
Lalé, Etienne - 2019
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005995
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Turbulence and the Employment Experience of Older Workers
Lalé, Etienne - 2016
This paper provides a unified account of the trends in unemployment and labor force participation pertaining to the … institutions in ways that deteriorate employment. The model explains simultaneously: (i) the fall in labor force participation in … the United States, (ii) the similar but more pronounced decline in Europe alongside rising unemployment rates and (iii …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524992
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Search and multiple jobholding
Lalé, Etienne - 2019
A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001478
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Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?
Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2007
We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144494
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Heterogeneity, Unemployment Benefits and Voluntary Labor Force Participation.
Devulder, A. - Banque de France - 2014
States at business cycle frequency. That being so,it can also generate large procyclical fluctuations in the vacancy-unemployment … ratio. This results from two plausible explanations, namely heterogeneity in households preferences and unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010816009