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Formal search and referrals from a firm's perspective

Rebien, Martina; Stops, Michael; Zaharieva, Anna - 2017

costless informal channel, i.e. referrals. There is a continuum of heterogeneous vacancies in our model where every frm with an …'s size and formal search intensity can also be observed for firms that don't use referrals; (4) Firms that use referrals as a … search channel invest less effort into formal search compared to firms that don't use referrals; (5) Larger firms are less …

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Are Job Networks Localized in a Developing Economy? Search Methods for Displaced Workers in Thailand

Machikita, Tomohiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

significant evidence of local interactions between job-seekers and referrals in developing labor markets. The effects of localized …

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Do labor market networks have an important spatial dimension?

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013

We test for evidence of spatial, residence-based labor market networks. Turnover is lower for workers more connected to …

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Men at Work in a Land Down-under

Booth, Alison; Katic, Pamela - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

We use new training data from waves 3-6 of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to investigate the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of human capital theory or with recent alternative theories...

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Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies

Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2008

According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product market conditions...

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Job search, human capital and wage inequality

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012

This paper constructs and quantitatively assesses an equilibrium search model with on-the- job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers differ in their innate abilities and firms in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers'...

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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows - a reinterpretation

Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....

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Supervision and Effort in an Intertemporal Efficiency Wage Model: The Role of the Solow Condition

Faria, João Ricardo - 1998

The Solow condition is examined in an intertemporal model that blends the shirking and the turnover models of … efficiency wages with managerial supervision. It is shown that the Solow condition does not hold when shirking and turnover costs … are considered. The Solow condition can be a possible outcome when managerial productivity offsets shirking and turnover …

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Real and nominal wage adjustment in open economies

Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2005

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the medium term evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these...

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Search capital

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2012

We construct a simple equilibrium search model in which workers accumulate information about previously met employment contacts. We term the latter search capital. Here search capital (partially) insures workers against adverse shocks. The model provides a theory of job-to-job transitions that...

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