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How broadband internet affects labor market matching

Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2020

unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …

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Sufficient statistics for frictional wage dispersion and growth

Vejlin, Rune Majlund; Veramendi, Gregory - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 14 (2023) 3, pp. 935-979

This paper develops a sufficient statistics approach for estimating the role of search frictions in wage dispersion and life‐cycle wage growth. We show how the wage dynamics of displaced workers are directly informative of both for a large class of search models. Specifically, the correlation...

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Problem or opportunity? : immigration, job search, entrepreneurship and labor market outcomes of natives in Germany

Iftikhar, Zainab; Zaharieva, Anna - 2024

In this study we evaluate the effects of low-skilled immigration on small businesses, wages and employment in Germany. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers, cross-skill matching, and endogenous entry into entrepreneurship. The model is calibrated using German...

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How did you find your job? : effects of the job search channels on labour market outcomes in Germany

Afonina, Mariya; Zaharieva, Anna - 2025

We study the effect of finding a job through one's social contact on starting wages. Using combined SOEP-INKAR data for Germany and propensity score analysis - both matching and weighting - we document that referral hiring is associated with a wage penalty of 10%. This penalty is stable over...

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Matching through search channels

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo; Lochner, Benjamin - 2023

Firms and workers predominately match via job postings, networks of personal contacts or the public employment agency, all of which help to ameliorate labor market frictions. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these search channels have differential effects on labor market...

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Social optimum, heterogeneous workers and firms in the labour market with on-the-job-search

Damdinsuren, Erdenebulgan - 2021

This paper develops a search model with heterogeneous workers, firms, and on-the-job search. Employed low-skilled workers are allowed to seek better paid jobs at high productivity firms. Low productivity firms make take-it-or-leave-it wage offers, whereas high productivity firms use Nash...

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A job ladder model with stochastic employment opportunities

Bradley, Jake; Gottfries, Axel - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 4, pp. 1399-1430

evidence and declining job finding rates and starting wage with duration of unemployment, both of which are present in the data. …

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Firm pay and worker search

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - 2025

Whether and how workers search on the job depends on their beliefs about pay and working conditions in other firms. Yet little is known about workers' knowledge of outside pay. We use a large-scale survey of full-time German workers, linked to their Social Security records, to elicit pay...

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Search, technology choice, and unemployment

Angyridis, Constantine; Zhou, Haiwen - In: International studies of economics 17 (2022) 3, pp. 296-310

's technology choice is embedded in a search theoretic framework for unemployment. More advanced technology is assumed to have a … increase in the unemployment benefit leads to an increase in the equilibrium wage rate, giving an incentive to firms to choose … a more advanced technology. Thus, this result regarding unemployment insurance in models with wage posting carries …

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Hartz IV and the decline of German unemployment : a macroeconomic evaluation

Hochmuth, Brigitte; Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; … - 2021

generosity of long-term unemployment benefits. We propose a model with different unemployment durations, where the reform …'s steady state unemployment and that partial and equilibrium effect were nearly of equal importance. In addition, we provide …

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