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Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Jiang, Wei; Malley, James R. - 2017

We extend the canonical model of search and matching frictions by including capital-skill complementarity in production …

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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany : conference paper

Hertweck, Matthias Sebastian; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013

This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …

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Heterogeneous impacts of commodity price shocks on labour market outcomes : evidence and theory for the Chilean mining sector

Valenzuela, José - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 33 (2024), pp. 1-48

shocks. In order to rationalize these findings, we build a DSGE-SOE model with asymmetric search and matching (SAM) frictions …

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Does short-time work save jobs? : a business cycle analysis

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Lechthaler, Wolfgang; … - 2013

In the Great Recession most OECD countries used short-time work (publicly subsidized working time reductions) to counteract a steep increase in unemployment. We show that short-time work can actually save jobs. However, there is an important distinction to be made: While the rule-based component...

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