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Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002

Many workers believe that personal contacts are crucial for obtaining jobs in high-wage sectors. On the other hand, firms in high-wage sectors report using employee referrals because they help provide screening and monitoring of new employees. This paper develops a matching model that can...

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Unintended consequences of China's new labor contract law on unemployment and welfare loss of the workers

Akee, Randall; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2018

regression discontinuity design based on this exogenous change in unemployment status for this particular group of workers, we …

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Essays on Temporary Work Agencies and the Economic Analysis of Law

Westéus, Morgan - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014

Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...

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Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes: Micro versus Macro Performances

Beugnot, Julie; Lacroix, Guy; Charlot, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

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A test between unemployment theories using matching data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

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Worker heterogeneity, the job-finding rate, and technical change

Basov, Suren; King, Ian; Uren, Lawrence - In: European Economic Review 70 (2014) C, pp. 159-177

We examine the implications of changes in the skill distribution on the equilibrium matching process and the job finding rate, using a directed search approach. Worker abilities are selected from a distribution while firms face heterogeneous entry costs and direct their job offers to workers. We...

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Unemployment and employment protection in a unionized economy with search frictions

Stähler, Nikolai - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2007

In theoretical literature, the effects of employment protection on unemployment are ambiguous. Higher employment … can unambiguously increase unemployment. Interestingly, I find that tightening the restrictions on redundancies and …

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Bidding for Labor

Julien, Benoit; Kennes, John; King, Ian - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 3 (2000) 4, pp. 619-649

numerical values for equilibrium unemployment and wage dispersion. The theory makes the novel prediction that wage dispersion is …

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The European Labour Markets - Disincentive Effects of Unemployment Benefits on the Paths Out of Unemployment

Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John - In: CESifo Forum 5 (2004) 1, pp. 24-30

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A Test Between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

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