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Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 1997

In the past decades several features of U.S. unemployment dynamics have been investigated empirically. The original … focus of research was on the duration of unemployment. In later studies the cyclicality of incidence and duration …, compositional effects and duration dependence of the exit rate out of unemployment have been investigated. Unlike the partial …

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Business Cycles and Compositional Variation in U.S. Unemployment

Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - Tinbergen Institute - 1997

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136894

Sorting and the Output Loss due to Search Frictions

Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion for the US is consistent with an unemployment rate of 4 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838544

Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...

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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se

Praag, Bernard M.S. van; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - Tinbergen Institute - 2002

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005209443

Structural Estimation of Search Intensity: Do Non-Employed Workers Search Enough?

Gautier, Pieter A.; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

We present a structural framework for the evaluation of public policies intended to increase job search intensity. Most of the literature defines search intensity as a scalar that influences the arrival rate of job offers; here we treat it as the number of job applications that workers send out....

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Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition

Gautier, Pieter A.; Wolthoff, Ronald P. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

In this paper we study the allocation of workers over high and low productivity firms in a labor market with coordination frictions. Specifically, we consider a search model where workers can apply to high and or low productivity firms. Firms that compete for the same candidate can increase...

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Estimating Equilibrium Effects of Job Search Assistance

Gautier, Pieter; Muller, Paul; Klaauw, Bas van der; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

Randomized experiments provide policy relevant treatment effects if there areno spillovers between participants and nonparticipants. We show that thisassumption is violated for a Danish activation program for unemployed workers.Using a difference-in-difference model we show that the...

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Collective versus Decentralized Wage Bargaining and the Efficient Allocation of Resources

Cai, Xiaoming; Gautier, Pieter A.; Watanabe, Makoto - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

An advantage of collective wage agreement is that search and business-stealing externalities can be internalized. A disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular worker type) can no longer signal this by posting...

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