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Discrimination in a search and matching model with self-employment

Lain, Jonathan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 9 (2019) 6, pp. 1-35

and matching model that allows for individual heterogeneity and participation in both self- and wage-employment as well as …

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The cyclical volatility of labor markets under frictional financial markets

Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas; Wasmer, Etienne - 2010

Financial frictions are known to raise the volatility of economies to shocks (e.g. Bernanke and Gertler 1989). We follow this line of research to the labor literature concerned by the volatility of labor market outcomes to productivity shocks initiated by Shimer (2005): in an economy with search...

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Directed search with phantom vacancies

Albrecht, James W.; Decreuse, Bruno; Vroman, Susan B. - 2020

When vacancies are filled, the ads that were posted are often not withdrawn, creating "phantom" vacancies. The existence of phantoms implies that older job listings are less likely to represent true vacancies than are younger ones. We assume that job seekers direct their search based on the...

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Disaggregating the matching function

Diamond, Peter A.; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2016

The aggregate matching (hiring) function relates gross hires to labor market tightness. Decompositions of aggregate …

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An Evaluation of Public-Sector-Sponsored Continuous Vocational Training Programs in East Germany

Lechner, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

participation in terms of employment probabilities, earnings, and career prospects after the completion of training using a matching …

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Health shocks, employment and income in the Spanish labour markets

Gómez, Pilar García; Nicolás, Angel López - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2005

European Community Household Panel. In order to control for the nonexperimental nature of the data we use matching techniques …

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Wage-Induced Mismatch on German Labour Markets? Lessons from Comparison with Portugal.

Entorf, Horst - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 219 (1999) 1+2, pp. 127-142

light on the divergent development from a matching point of view. I present matching functions based on comparable panel … matching elasticities with respect to unemployment. In Portugal, however, there is a strong upward trend of the matching … matching trend. It turns out that the evolution of real wages is a significant factor of mismatch in Germany. There seems to be …

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Health Shocks and Labour Transitions Across Europe

Deiana, C. - Centro Ricerche Nord Sud (CRENoS) - 2013

Conditions dataset is used (2007- 2009). Matching techniques are implemented in order to control for the non-experimental nature …

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Job Searchers, Job Matches and the Elasticity of Matching

Broersma, L.; van Ours, Jan C. - 1999

This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function in which the measure of job matches … corresponds to the measure of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been … market. In this paper, we specify and estimate matching functions where the flow corresponds to the correct stock. We use …

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Incentives in Competitive Search Equilibrium

Moen, Espen R.; Rosen, Asa - 2009

This paper proposes a labor market model with job search frictions where workers have private information on match quality and effort. Firms use wage contracts to motivate workers. In addition, wages are also used to attract employees. We define and characterize competitive search equilibrium in...

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