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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"on-the-job search"”.
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Essays on Models of the Labour Market with On-the-Job Search
In my first chapter, I provide a solution for how to model bargaining when there is on-the-job search and worker turnover depends on the wage. Bargaining is a standard feature in models without on-the-jobs search, but, due to endogeneity of the match surplus, a solution does not exist when worker …
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An Investigation Into The Relationship Between Wages, Mismatch, On-the-Job Search and Education
This thesis contributes to the existing literature by studying the 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 …
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Three Essays on Worker Displacement
Chapter 1 examines the effect of job displacement on the distribution of earnings. I utilize a novel technique, quantile fixed effect regression, in order to examine how the overall distribution of earnings changes while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in worker quality. I find that while …
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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 Macroeconomics and International Trade
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I develop a new theory of wage rigidity and unemployment fluctuations. The starting point of my analysis is a generalized version of Burdett and Mortensen’s (1998) job ladder model featuring risk-neutral firms, risk-averse workers, and …
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Broad Skill Focused Job Seeking: A Study of Intervention and Employment Outcomes
<p>The job search has been the subject of research across many disciplines adopting varied perspectives. However, the industrial-organizational psychology literature on the job search has failed to properly consider the role of individual differences in thought about the utility of job skills …
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Essays on labour market segmentation in Japan
Properly assessing labour market segmentation and its outcomes are essential for the debate of the policy related to atypical work. This thesis document the labour market segmentation in Japan, construct the model, and do counterfactual simulation to contribute to the policy making. The first …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… Chapter 1, joint work with Bledi Taski, we pose the question: how do workers value retirement benefits relative to wages and what impact do these benefits have on firm hiring? We find that dollars paid in employer contributions to 401(k) plans have nearly double the effect on a firm's recruiting …
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Essays in Macroeconomics
The thesis consists of three essays on macroeconomics. In the first essay, I study the price and wage-setting implications of monopsony models with nominal rigidities. I develop a New Keynesian model with wage posting and on-the-job search. I show how wage markdowns are related to the importance of …
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Essays on job search behavior and labor market policies
… high unemployment rates are a major threat to the social cohesion in many societies. To moderate the consequences of unemployment industrialized countries spend substantial shares of their GDP on labor market policies, while in recent years there has been a shift from passive measures, such as …