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and 67. predicated on the theoretical notion that an individual retires when his reservation wage exceeds his market wage … systematically and randomly across individuals. Market wages are derived from a standard wage equation adjusted to the special … potential selectivity bias inherent in the model (low-wage individuals tend to retire and cease reporting their market wage …
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in wage growth across workers and realistic cyclical fluctuations in unemployment …
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young men place greater weight on wage growth opportunities in the job and in the physically demanding jobs there are good … opportunities for wage growth, while in the repetitive jobs, wage growth is slow. The finding that young workers want to move into …
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aggregate dynamics, but different distributions of unemployment durations. With the threat point for the Nash bargained wage … being a worker with zero unemployment duration, the wage with ranking is much more sensitive to changes in the tightness of …
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unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies with calibrated …-faire economy (US), unemployment remains constant, but wage inequality increases more and productivity grows less due to larger …
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We show that the largest increase in unemployment benefits in U.S. history had large spending impacts and small job-finding impacts. This finding has three implications. First, increased benefits were important for explaining aggregate spending dynamics—but not employment dynamics—during the...
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We develop a unique survey that focuses on the job search behavior of individuals regardless of their labor force status and field it annually starting in 2013. We use our survey to study the relationship between search effort and outcomes for the employed and non-employed. Three important facts...
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We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated respondents receives a subsidy to cover the transport costs of job search. Another group participates in a job application workshop where their skills are certified and they...
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We investigate the role of information frictions in the US labor market using a new nationally representative panel dataset on individuals' labor market expectations and realizations. We find that expectations about future job offers are, on average, highly predictive of actual outcomes. Despite...
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This paper analyses job seekers' perceptions and their relationship to unemployment outcomes to study heterogeneity and duration dependence in both perceived and actual job finding. Using longitudinal data from two comprehensive surveys, we document that elicited beliefs are (1) strongly...
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