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A field experiment on labor market speeddates for unemployed workers

Klaauw, Bas van der; Ziegler, Lennart - 2019

We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effectiveness of labor market speeddates where unemployed workers meet temporary employment agencies. Our analysis shows that participation in such events increases immediate job finding by 6-7 percentage points. In the subsequent months, employment...

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HANK faces unemployment

Consolo, Agostino; Hänsel, Matthias - 2024

Since the advent of Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) models, countercyclical unemployment risk has been deemed an important amplification mechanism for business cycles shocks. Yet, the aggregate effects of such "unemployment fears" are hard to pin down. We thus revisit this issue in the...

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Unemployment Equilibrium and On-the-Job Search

Burgess, Simon M.; Turon, Hélène - 2021

This paper uses the search and matching framework to explore the impact of employed job search on the labour market …

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Unobserved Bilateral Search on the Labor Market : A Theory-Based Correction for a Common Flaw in Empirical Matching Studies

Sunde, Uwe - 2021

. Moreover, it is shown that the neglect of endogenous but not observable behavior in the empirical literature on labor matching … leads to systematically biased estimates of the matching elasticities, posing a caveat on the results of previous studies … testing for constant returns of the matching function. The theoretical model presented allows to predict the direction of the …

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Simultaneous search and adverse selection

Auster, Sarah; Gottardi, Piero; Wolthoff, Ronald - 2024

We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which agents with private information can simultaneously contact multiple trading partners. We highlight a new trade-off: facilitating contacts reduces coordination frictions but also...

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Job ladder and wealth dynamics in general equilibrium

Kaas, Leo; Lalé, Etienne; Siassi, Nawid - 2023

This paper develops a macroeconomic model that combines an incomplete-markets overlapping-generations economy with a job ladder featuring sequential wage bargaining, endogenous search effort of employed and non-employed workers, and differences in match quality. The calibrated model offers a...

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Job ladder and wealth dynamics in general equilibrium

Kaas, Leo; Lalé, Etienne; Siassi, Nawid - 2023

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Job ladder and wealth dynamics in general equilibrium

Kaas, Leo; Lalé, Etienne; Siassi, Nawid - 2023

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Wage bargaining and labor market policy with biased expectations

Balleer, Almut; Duernecker, Georg; Forstner, Susanne; … - 2023

Recent research documents mounting evidence for sizable and persistent biases in individual labor market expectations. This paper incorporates subjective expectations into a general equilibrium labor market model and studies the implications of biased expectations for wage bargaining, vacancy...

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Are informal self-employment and informal employment as employee behaviorally distinct labor force states?

Flabbi, Luca; Tejada, Mauricio - 2023

The paper performs both a parametric and non-parametric analysis to address a fundamental question in the growing literature using search models to study labor market informality: should informal self-employment and informal employment as employee be considered two different labor market states?...

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