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We investigate an equilibrium search model in which the search frictions are increasing with the distance to the … central business district allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous (monopsony) wage formation and land allocation. We …
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We investigate an equilibrium search model in which the search frictions are increasing with the distance to the … central business district allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous (monopsony) wage formation and land allocation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477106
We survey the microfoundations, empirical evidence and estimation issues underlying the aggregate matching function. Several microeconomic matching mechanisms have been suggested in the literature with some successes but none is generally accepted as superior to all others. Instead, an aggregate...
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We investigate an equilibrium search model in which the search frictions are increasing with the distance to the … central business district allowing for on-the-job search and endogenous (monopsony) wage formation and land allocation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257569
Labour market analysis places much emphasis on the concept of search. But there is insufficient empirical information … on (a) the relationship between reported search and job-finding and (b) how search behaviour changes over a spell without … classification of "unemployment" and "out of the labour force". Transitions during joblessness in and out of search and the various …
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In spite of ongoing dramatic changes in labor market structure, we present statistical evidence that transitional economies display rather low worker flows across sectors and occupations. Such low mobility can be explained by low returns to job changes as well as by market segmentation in the...
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the United States we find strong evidencefor a systematic concave relationship. An assignment model with search frictions …
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shocks initiated by Shimer (2005): in an economy with search on credit and labor markets, a financial multiplier raises the …
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their search strategies in strong versus weak markets. The 1987 academic market was strong while the 1997 market was much … weaker. A multimarket theory of optimal search suggests that job seekers will respond to a weakening market by lowering their … reservation utility. This in turn affects their search strategies at the extensive margin (which markets to enter) and the …
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insiders in this paper are characterized by being more efficient when they search for a job than the outsiders, implying that …
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