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作者：ANDERSON, PM
摘要：A simple search model that includes the possibility of recall provides predictions as to the changing effects of recall expectations, a bonus offer, and job counseling on new job finding rates over time. Using data from the New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Demonstration Project (NJUIRDP), I find evidence for an initial positive effect of the bonus offer, which diminishes over time. New ob-finding rates are found to be negatively affected by higher initial recall expectations. Thi...
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作者：KANEMOTO, Y; MACLEOD, WB
作者单位：Universite de Montreal
摘要：Workers in a long-term relationship often have an incentive to hide their ability early in the relationship to avoid having the firm increase the level of output expected from them in the future. We show that competition for older workers will permit the implementation of efficient piece-rate contracts. When the difficulty of the job is unobserved by the firm, Gibbons (1987) has shown that all piece-rate contracts will be inefficient. Together, these results may explain why piece rates are com...
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作者：RUHM, CJ
摘要：This article investigates whether prenotification decreases postdisplacement joblessness. Reduced-form estimates indicate that lengthy written notice is associated with small increases in the probability of avoiding nonemployment but with no decline in average durations. Significant reductions are found, however, for household heads, women, nonwhites, and in local labor markets with high unemployment rates. A new method is developed to control for the endogeneity of voluntarily provided advanc...
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作者：MACDONALD, GM; ROBINSON, C
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：This article explores a model in which a union confronts many competitive workers, firms, and consumers. Under monopoly unionism, union coverage may be incomplete; then, union wages and employment are insensitive to product demand variation. Under efficient unionism, coverage can never be incomplete; some union variables necessarily vary with product demand. Preliminary evidence on the demand independence under incomplete coverage hypothesis is presented. Also, more structure is imposed and fu...
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作者：HELWEGE, J
摘要：The observed differences in wages across industries may arise from a lack of worker mobility, particularly among experienced workers, allowing the effects-of industry shocks to persist for some time. Although young workers arbitrage wage shocks, they will have little effect on the dispersion of experienced workers' wages if young and old workers are poor substitutes in production. This explanation is investigated using the five Censuses of Population between 1940 and 1980. The evidence strongl...
