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Unemployment and Vacancy Dynamics with Imperfect Financial Markets

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Graber, Michael; Wälde, Klaus - 2015

. The aim of the paper is to analyse the transitional dynamics of unemployment and vacancies when financial constraints are … describes the transition path of unemployment and vacancies to their steady state values. We show that the transition path … downward sloping. This implies unemployment and vacancies adjust in opposite directions as observed in the data. When …

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Does the Internet Increase the Job Finding Rate? Evidence from a Period of Internet Expansion

Denzer, Manuel; Schank, Thorsten; Upward, Richard - 2018

We examine the impact of household access to the internet on job finding rates in Germany during a period (2006-2009) in which internet access increased rapidly, and job-seekers increased their use of the internet as a search tool. During this period, household access to the internet was almost...

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Stepping Stones for the Unemployed : The Effect of Temporary Jobs on the Duration until Regular Work

Zijl, Marloes; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Heyma, Arjan - 2004

unemployment and they substantially increase the fraction of unemployed workers who have regular work within a few years after …Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from … unemployment to temporary jobs and unobserved determinants of the transition rates. The data contain multiple spells in labour …

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...

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Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

Kuhn, Peter; Skuterud, Mikal - 2002

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - 2002

This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers can be matched together through … of different job search methods, conditional unemployment benefits hikes can improve welfare when individuals are risk …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment … the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in …

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Family job search, wage bargaining, and optimal unemployment insurance

Ek, Susanne; Holmlund, Bertil - 2010

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …

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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers

Dolado, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2003

This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs....

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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey

Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003

This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...

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