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The use of social networks and personal referrals in the labor market is very widespread. Both firms and workers may find it beneficial to use these informal channels to produce successful matches between job seekers and vacancies. This Chapter discusses the existing literature and highlights...
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This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm wage dispersion decreases more with higher minimum wages when firms are financially constrained. We...
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We investigate the use of various job search strategies and their impact on the probability of subsequent employment and the re-employment wage among working age men in Britain. We find that replying to advertisements and using Job Centres are the two most common methods of job search and that...
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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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total number of outflows from unemployment into employment at the regional level. To answer this question, we use data for …-seekers subject to unemployment insurance. As microeconometric evaluation studies show, the search effectiveness of programme …
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- cancy subsidy, a layoff tax and unemployment benefits. We derive analytical expressions for the optimal setting of each of … replacement rate of unemployment insurance should all rise in recessions. We find this confirmed in a calibration targeted to the …
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Conventional models of equilibrium unemployment typically imply that proportional taxes on labor earnings are neutral … with respect to unemployment as long as the tax does not affect the replacement rate provided by unemployment insurance, i ….e., unemployment benefits relative to after-tax earnings. When home production is an option, the conventional results may no longer …
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In this paper, we study the relative importance of demand and supply factors for hiring. We use a search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market and estimate it on Swedish panel data. If product markets are...
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unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
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. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …
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