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Dual Poverty Trap: Intra- and Intergenerational Linkages in Frictional Labor Markets
Horii, Ryo; Sasaki, Masaru - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
education in developing countries. When parents are uneducated, their children often face difficulties in finishing school and … receive an education, they expect that firms will not create enough jobs for educated workers, and thus are further … provision of free education, support for disadvantaged children, and public awareness programs. …
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The direct and indirect effects of online job search advice
Altmann, Steffen; Glenny, Anita M.; Mahlstedt, Robert; … - 2022
We study how online job search advice affects the job search strategies and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers. In a large-scale field experiment, we provide job seekers with vacancy information and occupational recommendations through an online dashboard. A clustered randomization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471980
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Search Theory, Downward Money Wage Rigidity and the Micro Foundations of the Phillips Curve
Schager, Nils Henrik - 1988
The present paper has two aims. The first one concerns primarily an issue of method. I set up and analyse an explicitly stochastic model of the optimal behaviour of a firm, which recruits from a search labour market. The second aim of my paper concerns very much an issue of substance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334990
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Online Job Search Advice
Altmann, Steffen; Glenny, Anita Marie; Mahlstedt, Robert; … - 2022
We study how online job search advice affects the job search strategies and labor market outcomes of unemployed workers. In a large-scale field experiment, we provide job seekers with vacancy information and occupational recommendations through an online dashboard. A clustered randomization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296574
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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment
Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012
This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283972
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Unemployment insurance, job search and informal employment
Margolis, David N.; Navarro, Lucas; Robalino, David A. - 2012
This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009550612
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Unemployment Insurance, Job Search and Informal Employment
Margolis, David N. - 2012
This paper analyses the potential impacts of introducing unemployment insurance (UI) in middle income countries using the case of Malaysia, which today does not have such a system. The analysis is based on a job search model with unemployment and three employment sectors: formal and informal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104659
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The Matching Process : Search or Mismatch?
Gottfries, Nils - 2017
We examine the matching process using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden. We find that an increase in the number of vacancies has a weak effect on the number of unemployed workers being hired: unemployed workers appear to be unable to compete for many available jobs. Vacancies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962923
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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833886
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Job search during the covid-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419555