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Job Search and Asset Accumulation Under Borrowing Constraints

Rendon, Sílvio - 2006

In this paper I show how borrowing constraints and job search interact. I fit a dynamic model to data from the National Longitudinal Survey (1979-cohort) and show that borrowing constraints are significant. Agents with more initial assets and more access to credit attain higher wages for several...

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Poisson Search

De Sinopoli, Francesco; Ferraris, Leo; Meroni, Claudia - 2020

This paper presents a model of the jobmarket in which the number of workers and companies is a Poisson random variable, as in Poisson games. The model has undominated equilibria that share some properties with directed search, while preserving some erratic elements typical of random search

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Geographic mobility over the life-cycle

Díaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly...

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Estimating the Effect of Counseling and Monitoring the Unemployed Using a Job Search Model

Gorter, Cees; Kalb, Guyonne - 2011

to their job finding rate, application intensity and matching probability. The effectiveness of Counseling and Monitoring … intensity and the matching probability. Counseling and Monitoring is an intensive job search assistance program designed to help …, although no differences are found in matching probabilities …

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Pareto-Improving Immigration in an Economy with Equilibrium Unemployment

Ortega, Javier - 2000

A dynamic two-country labour matching economy is presented. Workers decide whether to search in their native country or …

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Home-Ownership, Unemployed's Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Outcomes

Caliendo, Marco - 2015

Although home-ownership has been shown to restrict geographic labor mobility and to affect job search behavior of unemployed, there is no evidence so far on how it affects their future re-employment outcomes. We use two waves of detailed German survey data of newly unemployed individuals to...

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Labor market polarization over the business cycle

Foote, Christopher L.; Ryan, Richard W. - 2014 - This version: December 26, 2014

One of the most important long-run trends in the U.S. labor market is polarization, defined as the relative growth of employment in high-skill jobs (such as management and technical positions) and low-skill jobs (such as food-service and janitorial work) amid the concurrent decline in...

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Worker Replacement

Menzio, Guido; Moen, Espen R. - 2009

We consider a frictional labor market in which firms want to insure their senior employees against income fluctuations and, at the same time, want to recruit new employees to fill their vacant positions. Firms can commit to a wage schedule, i.e. a schedule that specifies the wage paid by the...

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Aggregate Implications of Employer Search and Recruiting Selection

Villena-Roldan, Benjamin - 2013

per vacancy and spend 2.5% of their total labor cost in these activities. The model provides an endogenous matching …

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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? : an experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring

Carlsson, Magnus (contributor); Rooth, Dan-Olof (contributor) - 2008

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...

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