Informal job search methods could alleviate short-term labour market difficulties of displaced workers by providing … job search methods may increase the risk of job insta- bility. We examine the effect of jobs search methods on post …-displacement outcomes. While informal job search methods are associated with shorter unemployment duration, and lower wage losses, they lead …

: informal referrals, job search methods, employment rates, hourly wages, selec- tion bias, OLS, Propensity-Score Matching … from this lit- erature is that informal search methods are widely used. Depending on the country, informal referrals are … institutional background might determine the conditions under which job search methods operate (Fontaine, 2004). Employer …

This paper studies the efectivity of search methods in the colombian labor market. The empirical analysis is uses the … reflected in the informality of search methods. Formal methods are the most effective, followed by the moderated informal …

paper is to discuss the benefits of using radial basis functions within a pattern search methods framework in the … optimization of the highly non-convex beam angle optimization (BAO) problem. Pattern search methods are derivative … two characteristics gathered together make pattern search methods suited to address the BAO problem. The pattern search …