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The effect of active labor market programs on not-yet treated unemployed individuals

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco - 2008

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects are hard to identify without model assumptions. We develop a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job-search behavioral outcomes, like the reservation wage,...

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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations

Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2010

Decomposing wages into worker and firm wage components, we find that firm-fixed components (firm rents) are sizeable parts of workers' wages. If workers can only imperfectly observe the extent of firm rents in their wages, they might be mislead about the overall wage distribution. Such...

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Do benefit hikes damage job finding? Evidence from Swedish unemployment insurance reforms

Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005

among men and women. The two reforms in conjunction are estimated to have increased the expected duration of unemployment … among men but to have decreased the duration of unemployment among women. The overall effect on the duration of unemployment …

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Do Benefit Hikes Damage Job Finding? Evidence from Swedish Unemployment Insurance Reforms

Bennmarker, Helge; Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil - 2005

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The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes

Eliason, Marcus; Hensvik, Lena; Kramarz, Francis; … - 2017

The paper studies how social connections affect firm-level hiring decisions and performance. We characterize the social connections of firms' employees using register data and for causal identification we use job displacements, which create directed positive shocks towards connected firms by...

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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Vikström, Johan - 2009

-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservables. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum …

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Cheap search, picky workers? Evidence from a field experiment

Mayr, Harald - 2022

affect search duration and unemployment: lower search costs make it easier to find a job, reducing search duration and … unemployment, but may also increase the reservation wage, increasing search duration and unemployment. I collaborate with a … costs might lead to picky workers, but fail to ultimately reduce search duration and unemployment. …

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On-the-job search and the cyclical dynamics of the labor market

Krause, Michael U.; Lubik, Thomas A. - 2004

We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where workers can engage in search while on the job. We show that on-the-job search is a key component in explaining labor market dynamics in models of equilibrium unemployment. The model predicts fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor...

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Job separation behavior of welfare recipients: results from a unique case study

Gunderson, Jill Marie; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2004

This paper uses a unique personnel data set to explore job separation behavior among welfare hires. Our results indicate that welfare hires are no less stable than similar nonwelfare hires; however, time until separation does differ across welfare status by reason for separation. We also found...

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Do Benefit Cuts Boost Job Findings? Swedish Evidence from the 1990s

Carling, Kenneth; Holmlund, Bertil; Vejsiu, Altin - 1999

In June 1995, the Swedish parliament decided to cut the replacement rate in unemployment insurance from 80 percent to 75 percent, a change that took effect on January 1, 1996. This paper examines how this change affected job finding rates among unemployed insured individuals. To identify the...

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