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Labor taxation in search equilibrium with home production

Holmlund, Bertil - 2001

Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …

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Strategic hiring behavior in empirical matching functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching framework, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

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Mandatory advance notice of layoff : evidence and efficiency considerations

Cederlöf, Jonas; Fredriksson, Peter; Nekoei, Arash; … - 2021

We investigate a prevalent, but understudied, employment protection policy: mandatory advance notice (MN), requiring employers to notify employees of forthcoming layoffs. MN increases future production, as notified workers search on the job, but reduces current production as they supply less...

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Wage rigidity and labor market dynamics with sorting

Schulz, Bastian - 2015

This paper adds two-sided ex-ante heterogeneity and a production technology inducing sorting to the canonical Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) search and matching model. Ex-ante heterogeneity and sorting have important implications for the dynamic properties of the model. The modifications...

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Do the unemployed accept jobs too quickly? : a comparison with employed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta - 2015

This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...

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Lifetime labor supply in a search model of unemployment

Bettendorf, Leon; Broer, Dirk Peter - 2003

pattern of searchunemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new conceptof 'voluntary' unemployment …

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The macroeconomics of labor and credit market imperfections

Wasmer, Etienne; Weil, Philippe - 2000

Labor market frictions are not the only possible factor responsible for high unemployment. Credit market imperfections … European and US unemployment differ so much when labor markets have become more similar at the margin in Europe and the US. To …

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Job search methods, intensity and success in Britain in the 1990s

Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P. - 2002

We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...

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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages

Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2016 - First version: April 2015. This version: February 2016

density function with higher density and thereby generate large, asymmetric job-finding rate and unemployment reactions. Our …

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