Search Results - subject:"Matching frictions"

Over-education for the rich, under-education for the poor: a search-theoretic microfoundation

Charlot, Olivier; Decreuse, Bruno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This paper studies the efficiency of educational choices in a two sector/two schooling level matching model of the labour market where a continuum of heterogenous workers allocates itself between sectors depending on their decision to invest in education. Individuals differ in ability and...

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Growth and labour markets in developing countries

Satchi, Mathan; Temple, Jonathan - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2006

develop a general equilibrium model with matching frictions in the urban labour market, the possibility of self-employment in … fraction of urban employment. We develop a general equilibrium model with matching frictions in the urban labour market, the …, matching frictions ∗ We have benefited from discussions on this topic with Alan Carruth, Antonio Ciccone, Juan Dolado, Theo …

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Over-education for the rich vs under-education for the poor: a search-theoretic microfoundation

Charlot, Olivier; Decreuse, Bruno - HAL - 2006

This paper provides a search-theoretic microfoundation to the popular view according to which rich but poorly talented individuals crowd out poorer and more talented individuals from schooling. We consider a two-sector, two schooling level matching model of unemployment with ex-post...

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Spending-based austerity measures and their effects on output and unemployment

Bermperoglu, Dimitrios; Pappa, Evi; Vella, Eugenia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

using sign restrictions extracted from a New-Keynesian model with matching frictions in the private and public sector …

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Unemployment Insurance Take-up Rate"s in an Equilibrium Search Model

Auray, Stéphane; Fuller, David L.; Lkhagvasuren, damba - Centre de Recherche en Économie et Statistique … - 2013

In the US unemployment insurance (UI) system, only a fraction of those eligible for benefits actually collect them. We estimate this fraction using CPS data and detailed state-level eligibility criteria. It averaged 77% from 1989 - 2012 and is negatively correlated with the unemployment rate....

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Education and employment protection

Charlot, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck - In: Labour Economics 20 (2013) C, pp. 3-23

In this paper, we generalize the study of the return to education undertaken in e.g. Laing et al. (1995) and Burdett and Smith (2002) to an environment where the link between education and job destruction is taken into account. This enables us to study how a European-type Employment Protection...

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Unemployment benefits, job protection, and the nature of educational investment

Decreuse, Bruno; Granier, Pierre - In: Labour Economics 23 (2013) C, pp. 20-29

matching frictions promote adaptability skills instead of productivity skills, and why unemployment benefits and job protection …

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Search frictions, real wage rigidities and the optimal design of unemployment insurance

Albertini, Julien; Fairise, Xavier - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 37 (2013) 9, pp. 1796-1813

In this paper, we study the optimal unemployment benefits financing scheme when the economy is subject to labor market imperfections characterized by real wage rigidities and search frictions. The US unemployment insurance financing is such that firms are taxed proportionately to their layoffs...

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Unemployment benefits, job protection, and the nature of educational investment

Decreuse, Bruno; Granier, Pierre - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 23 (2013), pp. 20-29

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Search frictions, real wage rigidities and the optimal design of unemployment insurance

Albertini, Julien; Fairise, Xavier - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 37 (2013) 9, pp. 1796-1813

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