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This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to …
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Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
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process and best occupations fitting to them. A search and learning model is provided in order to analyze these effects. In … the model, search outcomes relay information about workers’ job finding abilities and appropriate occupations suited to … them, and workers use this information to infer their types. Our theory explains how search outcomes during unemployment …
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search on either side of the labor market. Third, we allow for multiple types of jobseekers and consider an "augmented …
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This paper investigates the spatial connotations of job search methods of unemployed people, and in particular whether … search methods lead to local vis-à-vis non-local jobs. The data set used is the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), a … the search methods used in the last four weeks. A total of five methods can be selected, namely whether he/she (a) applied …
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This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risks hazard model of fertility and cohabitation decisions. Our results show that individual earnings...
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