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Structural estimation of search intensity : do non-employed workers search enough?

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis; … - 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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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2018

dispersion and both the level of unemployment as well as the transition rates between different labor market states. The findings …

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Barriers to entry : decomposing the gender gap in job search in urban Pakistan

Gentile, Elisabetta; Kohli, Nikita; Subramanian, Nivedhitha - 2023

Gender gaps in labor market outcomes persist in South Asia. An open question is whether supply or demand side constraints play a larger role. We investigate this using matched data from three sources in Lahore, Pakistan: representative samples of jobseekers and employers; administrative data...

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Buy flexible, pay more : the role of temporary contracts on wage inequality

Albanese, Andrea; Gallo, Giovanni - 2020

We investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new hires in temporary and open-ended contracts for the period of 2005-2015. To estimate the presence of differentials...

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...

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Information frictions and labor market outcomes

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015

We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...

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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution

Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006

Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...

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Job-to-job transitions and the wages of Australian workers

Deutscher, Nathan - 2019

-to-job transition rates - is an important driver of real wages. Intuitively, workers are better placed to move or bargain for increases … the predictions from this model in the Australian data. Higher job-to-job transition rates in Australian local labour …, suggesting the relationship between job-to-job transition rates and wages growth runs deeper than both simply being higher in …

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Motherhood and the cost of job search

Philippe, Arnaud; Skandalis, Daphné - 2023

Why do women experience a persistent drop in labor earnings upon becoming mothers, i.e. a "child penalty"? We study a new mechanism: search frictions. We analyze data on job applications sent on a popular online platform linked with administrative data for 350,000 involuntarily unemployed...

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Discouraged worker effect and labor market behavior of urban married women

Tayal, Deeksha; Paul, Sourabh Bikas - In: Asian development review : studies of Asian and pacific … 38 (2021) 2, pp. 93-122

The study investigates the importance of poor local labor market conditions in explaining the labor market behavior of married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a discouraged worker effect arising from either of two...

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