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Job search and the age-inequality profile : conference paper

Marotzke, Petra - 2013

, the model captures the shapes of the empirically observed age profiles of average wages, the unemployment rate, the … unemployment to employment transition rate, and the employment to employment transition rate. …

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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Double matching : social contacts in a labour market with on-the-job search ; conference paper

Zaharieva, Anna - 2013

This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social capital is endogenous, so that better connected workers bargain higher wages for a given level of productivity. This is a positive effect of referrals on reservation wages. At the...

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The un-intended convergence : how the Finnish unemployment reached the European level

Koskela, Erkki; Uusitalo, Roope - 2003

The Finnish unemployment rose in the early 1990's from three to eighteen percent in four years. Unemployment has then … this unforeseen increase in unemployment. We then discuss the role of labour market institutions in the adjustment process … that has brought unemployment back to 'normal' levels. We argue that these institutions cannot be blamed for the increase …

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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany : conference paper

Hertweck, Matthias Sebastian; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013

(1983-2009). We show that, until the early 2000s, close to 60% of changes in the unemployment rate are due to changes in the …

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Simultaneous search and network efficiency : conference paper

Gautier, Pieter; Holzner, Christian - 2013

When workers send applications to vacancies they create a bipartite network. Coordination frictions arise if workers and firms only observe their own links. We show that those frictions and the wage mechanism are in general not independent. Only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post competition...

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Welfare transitions before and after reforms of the German welfare system

Riphahn, Regina T.; Wunder, Christoph - 2013

We study state dependence in the German welfare system and compare transition patterns before and after recent reforms of the welfare system (Hartz Reforms). Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply dynamic multinomial logit estimators and find that welfare transitions have...

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The economics of new technology in developing countries

Stewart, Frances (ed.); James, Jeffrey (ed.) - Workshop on Technology <1980> - 2019

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Industry competitiveness: digitalization, management, and integration

Bogoviz, Aleksei Valentinovich (ed.); … - Scientific and Practical Forum Industry, Science, … - 2020

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Effect of past coworkers on job search evidence from Austria : conference paper

Saygin, Perihan; Weber, Andrea; Weynandt, Michèle - 2013

exit hazard from unemployment, and to a 2.5 percent decrease in the drop out hazard. It is also associated with a 0.5 EUR …

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