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This paper examines whether the chances of job placements improve if unemployed persons are counselled by caseworkers who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their...
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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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We develop a theoretical model where the existence and intensity of dyadic contacts depend on location. We show that agents tend to interact more with agents that are highly central in the network of social contacts and that are geographically closer. Using a unique geo-coded dataset of...
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implications showing how these models can explain why ethnic minorities tend to experience higher unemployment rate than workers …
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neighbourhood unemployment rate. Other neighbourhood characteristics such as the average housing price are not important. From this … we conclude that for young Dutch welfare recipients a high local unemployment rate has a negative spillover effect on the …
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There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Paris region (Ile … exhaustive dataset of all unemployment spells starting in the first semester of 1996. This model allows us to recover a survival …
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This paper models regional earnings and unemployment in the ten regions of Great Britain between 1972 and 1995, paying … persistence in regional unemployment rates. We find no evidence of a negative effect of the overall unemployment rate on the …
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We propose a new econometric estimation method for analysing the probability of leaving un-employment using uncompleted … unemployment between the 1980s and 1990s during a period of labour market reform. We find that the relative probability of leaving … unemployment of the short-term unemployed versus the long-term unemployed becomes significantly higher in the 1990s. …
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Theoretical predictions of the impact of TFP growth on unemployment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which … creative destruction effects by estimating the impact of TFP growth on unemployment in a panel of industrial countries. We find …-state dynamics of unemployment. Capitalization effects explain some of the estimated impact but a part remains unexplained. …
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. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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