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The importance of two-sided heterogeneity for the cyclicality of labour market dynamics

Bachmann, Ronald; Bechara, Peggy - 2018

Using administrative data on individual workers' employment history and firms, we investigate the cyclicality of worker flows on the German labour market. Focusing on heterogeneities on both sides of the labour market, we find that small firms hire much more workers from unemployment than large...

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The Cyclicality of Separation and Job Finding Rates

Fujita, Shigeru - 2019

This paper uses CPS gross flow data, adjusted for margin error and time aggregation error, to analyze the business cycle dynamics of separation and job finding rates and to quantify their contributions to overall unemployment variability. Cyclical changes in the separation rate lead those of...

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How unemployment scarring affects skilled young workers : evidence from a factorial survey of Swiss recruiters

Shi, Lulu P.; Imdorf, Christian; Samuel, Robin; Sacchi, … - In: Journal for labour market research 52 (2018) 7, pp. 1-15

We ask how employers contribute to unemployment scarring in the recruitment process in the German-speaking part of … Switzerland. By drawing on recruitment theories, we aim to better understand how recruiters assess different patterns of …

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Impact of E-Recruitment and Job-Seekers Perception on Intention to Pursue the Jobs

Khan, N. R. - 2016

The study highlighted the significance of e-recruitment in the firms. In current epoch technology integrated the … recruitment sources, job seekers' perception and intention to pursue the job. Data was collected from 257 respondents and analysed … search the job among other recruitment sources. Furthermore, it is also suggested that the effectiveness of e-recruitment …

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A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations

Mercan, Yusuf; Schoefer, Benjamin; Sedlácek, Petr - 2021

In recessions, unemployment increases despite the—perhaps counterintuitive—fact that thenumber of unemployed workers finding jobs expands. On net, unemployment rises only becauseeven more workers lose their jobs. We propose a theory of unemployment fluctuations resting onthis...

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How Vacancy Referrals affect Job Search : Evidence from Job Applications Data

Jeremy, Zuchuat - 2023

Vacancy referrals by caseworkers represent an effective and widely-used job search assistance tool. However, little is known about the mechanisms through which they affect job finding. This paper uses granular longitudinal job applications data with firms’ responses to shed light on those...

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Job Applications and Labor Market Flows

Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt; Wee, Shu Lin - 2020

Job applications have risen over time yet job-finding rates remain unchanged. Meanwhile, separations have declined. We argue that increased applications raise the probability of a good match rather than the probability of job-finding. Using a search model with multiple applications and costly...

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State intervention and labour market in India: issues and options

Majumder, Rajarshi; Mukherjee, Dipa - 2008

State interventions into Labour policies in India are directed towards ensuring both job security and income security. In this paper we look at likely impact of such policies. The laws are found to serve the organised workers primarily while large masses of unorganised workers are without any...

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Minimum Wages in Kenya

Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...

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Estimating the employment effects of a minimum wage from a cross-sectional wage distribution. A semi-parametric approach

Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2012

On the basis of a structural labor demand model employment effects of a minimum wage are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution. The main contribution of the paper is to relax restrictive functional form assumptions of earlier papers by introducing more flexible...

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