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Productivity and job flows: heterogeneity of new hires and continuing jobs in the business cycle

Kilponen, Juha; Vanhala, Juuso - 2009

This paper focuses on tenure driven productivity dynamics of a firm-worker match as a potential explanation of "unemployment volatility puzzle". We let new matches and continuing jobs differ by their productivity levels and by their sensitivity to aggregate productivity shocks. As a result, new...

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Unemployment and willingness to accept job offers: results of a factorial survey experiment

Abraham, Martin; Auspurg, Katrin; Bähr, Sebastian; … - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 4, pp. 283-305

Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics …

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Marriage and Divorce under Labor Market Uncertainty

Holzner, Christian; Schulz, Bastian - 2019

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...

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Recent Unemployment Experience in New Zealand

Borland, Jeff - 2014

This paper discusses the recent history of the rate of unemployment in New Zealand. The rate of unemployment in New Zealand increased by about 3.5 percentage points between late 2007 and late 2009, and then has remained relatively steady to early 2013. Compared to the most recent previous...

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Do job creation schemes improve the social integration and well-being of the long-term unemployed?

Ivanov, Boris; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Pohlan, Laura - 2019

In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of...

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Vermittlerstrategien und Arbeitsmarkterfolg – Evidenz aus kombinierten Prozess- und Befragungsdaten

Boockmann, Bernhard; Osiander, Christopher; Stops, Michael - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 47 (2014) 4, pp. 341-360

In spite of extensive regulations, Germany's job offices and their caseworkers have substantial discretion in implementing labor market policies. Based on the analysis of combined survey and administrative data, this study compares the effectiveness of different strategies aimed at...

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Unskilled Workers in an Economy with Skill-Biased Technology

Shi, Shouyong - 1999

This paper contributes to the search theory of unemployment by endogenously deriving matching functions and surplus … both sides of the market are heterogeneous and the resulted matching function can exhibit non-constant returns to scale …

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Tax Effects on Unemployment and the Choice of Educational Type

Alstadsæter, Annette; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Larsen, Birthe - 2005

This paper examines the effect of taxes on the individuals' choices of educational direction, and thus on the economy's skill composition. A proportional labour income tax induces too many workers with high innate ability to choose an educational type with high consumption value and low effort...

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Macroeconomic Impacts of ALMP on the Matching Process in West Germany

Hujer, Reinhard; Zeiss, Christopher - 2003

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of job creation schemes and vocational training on the matching … from 1999 to 2003. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by ALMP. In order to … results obtained from our estimates indicate that vocational training does not significantly affect the matching process and …

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An Evaluation of Public Employment Programmes in the East German State of Sachsen-Anhalt

Lechner, Michael; Eichler, Martin - 1999

In East Germany, active labour market policies (ALMPs) are used on a large scale to contain fast rising unemployment after unification. This paper evaluates the effects for participants in public employment programmes (PEPs), that are an important part of ALMPs. It focuses on individual...

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