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How broadband Internet affects labor market matching

Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2019 - This version: December 19, 2019

unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …

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How broadband internet affects labor market matching

Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2020

unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …

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Information frictions and labor market outcomes

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

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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Social networks and the labour market

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022

This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labour markets, with a specific focus on developing countries. It reviews existing research, in particular, on the use of social networks for hiring and the consequences of networks for on-the-job outcomes, including emerging...

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2003

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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Equilibrium directed search with multiple applications

Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter; Vroman, Susan B. - 2005

We analyse a model of equilibrium directed search in a large labour market. Each worker, observing the wages posted at all vacancies, makes a fixed, finite number of applications, a. We allow for the possibility of ex post competition should more than one vacancy want to hire the same worker....

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Pricing and investments in matching markets

Mailath, George J.; Postlewaite, Andrew; Samuelson, Larry - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 8 (2013) 2, pp. 535-590

Different markets are cleared by different types of prices—seller-specific prices that are uniform across buyers in some markets, and personalized prices tailored to the buyer in others. We examine a setting in which buyers and sellers make investments before matching in a competitive market....

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Wages, training and job turnover in a search-matching model

Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2000

(2000) to allow for different offer arrival rates in employment and unemployment. The model by Mortensen changes the …

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Scale effects in markets with search

Petrongolo, B; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Reduced- form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...

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Scale effects in markets with search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

higher post-unemployment wages but not faster matches, so aggregate matching functions are unaffected by scale. …

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