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Testing theories of job creation: does supply create its own demand?

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2006

-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings …

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Testing Theories of Job Creation: Does Supply Create Its Own Demand?

Carlsson, Mikael; Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822271

Do the Unemployed Accept Jobs Too Quickly? A Comparison with Employed Job Seekers

Longhi, Simonetta - 2015

This paper analyses differences between unemployed and employed job seekers in job finding rates and in the quality of the job found. Compared to the unemployed, employed job seekers have a smaller pool of job offers that they consider acceptable; this leads to lower job finding rates but better...

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Explaining differences in job search outcomes between employed and unemployed job seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - 2011

We use individual data for Great Britain over the period 1992-2009 to compare the probability that employed and unemployed job seekers find a job and the quality of the job they find. The job finding rate of unemployed job seekers is 50 percent higher than that of employed job seekers, and this...

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Does Atypical Work Help the Jobless? Evidence from a CAEAS/CPS Cohort Analysis

Addison, John T.; Surfield, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...

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Explaining Differences in Job Search Outcomes Between Employed and Unemployed Job Seekers

Longhi, Simonetta; Taylor, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

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The Wage Curve after the Great Recession

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex; Spurling, Jackson - 2022

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is 'tight' because unemployment … rates are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn't been since …

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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

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Labour Market Dynamics in Spanish Regions: Evaluating Asymmetries in Troublesome Times

Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - 2013

' relative position persists: those with the highest unemployment rates in 1996 were also in the worse position in 2012. To … reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide evidence of real wage rigidities in both …

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Macroeconomic volatilities and the labor market: First results from the euro experiment

Merkl, Christian; Schmitz, Tom - 2010

. We use a New Keynesian model with unemployment to predict the effects of different labor market institutions on …

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