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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Applications and interviews : a structural analysis of two-sided simultaneous search

Wolthoff, Ronald - 2010

A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the...

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Search, screening and sorting

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021

We investigate the effect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a subset of them. In this environment, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for sorting...

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Search, screening and sorting

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021

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Simultaneous search with heterogeneous firms and ex post competition

Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2006

In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase...

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Search, screening and sorting

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2021

We investigate the e↵ect of search frictions on labor market sorting by constructing a model which is in line with recent evidence that employers collect a pool of applicants before interviewing a subset of them. In this environment, we derive the necessary and sucient conditions for sorting...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591555

Extended benefit entitlement periods and the duration of unemployment in West Germany

Steiner, Viktor - 1997

Germany, as most other European countries, has been plagued by a persistently high level of long-term unemployment … since the early 1980's. In contrast, long-term unemployment is much less of a problem in the United States. One potential … reason for the different structure of unemployment relates to institutional differences in unemployment compensation systems …

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Determinanten individueller Arbeitslosigkeit : mikroökonomische Erklärungsansätze und empirische Analysen für Österreich

Steiner, Viktor - 1990

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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

We analyze the effect of imposed benefit sanctions on the unemployment-to-employment transition of unemployed people … entitled to unemployment compensation on the basis of register data from the German Federal Employment Agency. We combine … effects diminish with the elapsed unemployment duration until a sanction is imposed. The limited use of benefit sanctions can …

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Imposed benefit sanctions and the unemployment-to-employment transition : the German experience

Müller, Kai-Uwe (contributor); Steiner, Viktor (contributor) - 2008

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