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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Search and matching"”.
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The Search and Matching Model: Challenges and Solutions
… of unemployment, job vacancies, job creation and market tightness in the US economy. The framework used to model unemployment and job creation throughout this work, is the search and matching model, created by Mortensen and Pissarides (1994). This dissertation proposes three different …
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Labor Market Effects of Migration: Evidence from EU Enlargement and Application of Search-and-Matching Framework
The existence and the direction of labor market effects of migration has been subject to long and extensive debates among both economists and policy makers. This study provides a theoretical rationale as well as empirical evidence for the existence of welfare-improving migration outcomes. The first …
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ESSAYS ON MONETARY POLICY
… validated business cycle model of Smets and Wouters under commitment and discretion. Once the preferences do not coincide with each other, discretionary policies that target the price-level or the change in the output gap outperform the standard loss function. Chapter 2 investigates …
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Three Essays on Search: Optimal Policy with Heterogeneous Workers
… analysis of the human capital investment and participation decision of heterogeneous workers in the search and matching framework. Its aim is to characterise the equilibrium and to identify the efficiency. The first chapter of this thesis contributes to study equilibrium search and …
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Labour market participation and frictional unemployment in stochastic equilibria
… the behaviour of marginally attached individuals and those who do not desire to work and their role in explaining labour market fluctuations. Then, I use the results found in the First Chapter as a motivation for the rest of this thesis. In the Second Chapter, I consider a search and matching …
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Essays in macroeconomics and unemployment
Conventional DSGE models that include labor search-and-matching frictions assume that only unemployed workers are job seekers. Without taking the behavior of employed job seekers into account, these standard models overestimate the true magnitude of fluctuations in the entire population of job …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes. The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business cycle frequencies in the United States between the …
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An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Wages, Mismatch, On-the-Job Search and Education
… link between educational choices, skill mismatch and wages in a labour market with search frictions with on-the-job search. In the first paper, I used empirical techniques to look at the link between skill mismatch and wages. I found that over-education and mismatch is part of a career mobility or …
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Labour market participation and access to internet during Covid-19 lockdown: Case of South Africa
… have been greatly impacted by internet use and access to information and communication technologies worldwide. Among others, the internet has affected labour market transparency, job search and matching. In addition, the recent pandemic (COVID-19) has also highlighted the crucial role that …
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On The Causes and Consequences of Divorce
… market activity of women following a divorce and discuss the possible causes of divorce from theoretical and empirical perspectives. One of the consequences of divorce for women with dependent children who are not fully employed in labour market, is a major loss of income and decrease in their …
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Aging And The Gains From Marriage
Men and women have distinct marriage patterns over the lifecycle. In the contemporary USA, marriages for women are concentrated earlier in the lifecycle, whereas for men they are spread out later in the lifecycle. In particular, this means that men are more likely than women to get married in …
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Essays in Public Economics
… the presence of optimal income taxation. Using a search-and-matching framework, I derive a novel condition that links the desirability of the minimum wage to three sufficient statistics: (1) the macro labor force participation response to the minimum wage by low skilled individuals; (2) the macro …
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Three essays on labor market disparities and inequality
… dissertation studies labor market disparities and inequality in the United States. The focus is to investigate the determinants of gaps in various labor market outcomes over the life cycle between different demographic groups and to study whether the increased earnings inequality over the past …
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Essays on Bargaining and Markets
… 1: Inefficiency in a Frictionless Market Gale and Sabourian (2006) discuss the existence of inefficient Markov-perfect equilibrium (MPE) in a heterogeneous market. This paper shows that the example they provide cannot be supported as a MPE. Indeed, with two buyers and two sellers, the …
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Three Essays in Firms, Trade and Development
… developing countries make supply-chain decisions and how those microeconomic decisions aggregate into macroeconomic outcomes. Chapter 1 In the first chapter, which is co-authored with Vasco Carvalho and Matthew Elliott, we consider how a firm’s position in a supply-chain can confer market power. …
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Labor market performance and heterogeneity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Rochester. Department of Economics, 2004.
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Labour Market Policies and Unemployment in the Presence of Search & Matching Frictions
… to the response of unemployment to shocks and the role of active and passive labour market policies. Throughout the thesis, unemployment is assumed to evolve as a result of the uncoordinated nature of the labour market along the lines outlined in the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides equilibrium …
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Essays on Financial and Labor Markets with Frictions
… chapters, is devoted to exploring financial and labor markets with frictions.</p><p>Chapter I: Unemployment and Capital Misallocation. The recent recession was associated not only with a marked disruption in the credit market, but also a sharp deterioration in labor market conditions, as …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
This thesis contributes to the study of firms and labor markets in macroeconomics. The first two chapters argue that analyzing how workers with varied skills are organized in production – opening the “black box” of firms – provides new insights about macroeconomic outcomes and trends. The first …
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