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rejected job offers. Our estimation strategy takes account of the selectivity associated with the initial employment state and …
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How do employers attract the right workers? How important are posted wages vs. other job characteristics? Using data … from the leading job board CareerBuilder.com, we show that most vacancies do not post wages, and, for those that do, job … elasticity of labor supply. Thus, our results uncover the previously undocumented power of words in the job matching process …
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employment, wages and labor market sorting, we structurally estimate an equilibrium job ladder model featuring two …-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …
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employment, wages and labor market sorting, we structurally estimate an equilibrium job ladder model featuring two …-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …
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employment, wages and labor market sorting, we structurally estimate an equilibrium job ladder model featuring two …-sided heterogeneity, multiple search channels and endogenous recruitment effort. The estimation reveals that networks are the most cost …
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In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen … framework and the search-matching framework (eg. Pissarides, 1990). Second, it improves the correspondence between the … subsequently estimate the model on Danish labour market data using a structural non-parametric estimation procedure. We find that …
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. Ignoring these selection effects can lead to biased expectations about the consequences of working part-time on wages … differences between full-time and part-time workers also predict large changes in hourly wages when a given worker switches …
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This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound implications for the market equilibrium. In the model, job offers and job destruction shocks arrive according to a Poisson process in continuous time, but institutional factors...
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This discussion paper resulted in an article in the 'American Economic Review' (2006). Volume 96, issue 2, pages 270-274.<P> Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage...</p>
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Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
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