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Measuring Heterogeneity in Job Finding Rates Among the Nonemployed Using Labor Force Status Histories

Kudlyak, Marianna; Lange, Fabian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those...

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Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Risk in a Frictional Labor Market

Rudanko, Leena - Department of Economics, Boston University - 2008

Economists face difficulties explaining the strong cyclicality of US unemployment. This paper contributes both by … unemployment, and the results suggest an upper bound on how far they can go in explaining unemployment cyclicality. …

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The Consumption-Tightness Puzzle

Ravn, Morten O - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

unemployment, very low volatility of labour market tightness, and for a positively sloped Beveridge curve. These implications are …

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Le marché du travail dans la crise : un cadrage statistique

Marchand, Olivier; Minni, Claude - In: Revue de l'OFCE n° 115 (2010) 4, pp. 63-80

same which knows more the precarious employment, the underemployment and the recurrent unemployment. Moreover, one observes …

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Equilibrium Unemployment and Wage Formation with Matching Frictions and Worker Moral Hazard

ROCHETEAU, Guillaume - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2000

This paper synthesizes the shirking and the matching approaches of equilibrium unemployment in order to endogenize the … when the unemployment rate is above a certain threshold. Futhermore, an efficiency wage is more likely when the disutility …

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Labor Market Cycles, Unemployment Insurance Eligibility, and Moral Hazard

Faig, Miquel; Zhang, Min - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 15 (2012) 1, pp. 41-56

paper were to be implemented, the average unemployment rate in the United States would fall from 5.7 to 4.7 percent. Also … and realistic responses of unemployment to changes in UI benefits. (Copyright: Elsevier) …

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New Developments in Models of Search in the Labour Market

Mortensen, Dale T; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage … policies on wages and unemployment. …

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Complementarities and Substitutabilities in Matching Models

Cardullo, Gabriele - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 116 (2008) 2, pp. 159-177

this kind of model features no production and full unemployment, making them useless for any policy analysis. A comparison …

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Homeownership and Labour Market Outcomes: Micro versus Macro Performances

Beugnot, Julie; Lacroix, Guy; Charlot, Olivier - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

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A test between unemployment theories using matching data

Coles, Melvyn; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …

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