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作者：BURGESS, PL; LOW, SA
摘要：Preunemployment search is the fundamental labor market process generating beneficial effects of advance notice. Yet theory indicates that workers receiving notice may not search, whereas others may search even without advance notice. Our weighted results indicate that over one-third of all nonnotified workers still search and over 40% of workers receiving notice do not respond by searching. Further, preunemployment search determinants differ for notified (nonnotified) workers and men (women). ...
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作者：VANOURS, J; RIDDER, G
作者单位：University of Groningen
摘要：Little is known about the search strategy that employers use in their efforts to fill job vacancies. In this article, we analyze unique micro data to study this search strategy. We conclude that almost all vacancies are filled from a pool of applicants that is formed shortly after the posting of the vacancy. Hence, vacancy durations should be interpreted as selection periods and not as search periods for applicants.
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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：COUCH, KA
摘要：This research utilizes new data to track the earnings effect of the National Supported Work experiment (NSW) on the youth and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) target groups for 8 years following training. The research indicates that the NSW's effect on the AFDC recipients ranged from $375 to $525 in 1978 dollars during the years 1982-86. The sum of the estimated earnings effects for the AFDC treatments over the observed posttraining period more than offset the costs of the traini...
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作者：KRUEGER, AB; PISCHKE, JS
作者单位：National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This article uses aggregate birth year/calendar year level data derived from the Current Population Survey (CPS) to estimate the effect of Social Security wealth on the labor supply of older men in the 1970s and 1980s. The analysis focuses on measuring the impact of the 1977 amendments to the Social Security Act, which created a substantial, unanticipated reduction in Social Security wealth for individuals born after 1916. This differential in benefits has become known as the benefit notch. Re...
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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...
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作者：SIMON, CJ; WARNER, JT
摘要：Firms often view job applicant referrals from current employees as more informative than direct applications or referrals through formal labor market intermediaries such as placement firms. We argue that old boy networks reduce employers' uncertainty about worker productivity. Using Jovanovic's job matching model, we show that workers hired through the old boy network should (1) earn higher initial salaries, (2) experience lower subsequent wage growth on the job, and (3) stay on the job longer...
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作者：MACHIN, S; MANNING, A
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This article derives three dynamic models of worker effort determination, based on a shirking efficiency wage model, a compensating differentials model, and a union-firm bargaining model. It shows that all of these three models have the same long-run comparative statics but differ in their short-run dynamics. We use these different predictions about the dynamics as a basis for testing the models. Euler equations for each model are estimated using panel data on 486 U.K. companies. The evidence ...
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作者：LEACH, J
摘要：A two-state model of strikes, in which both the entrepreneur and the worker randomize their behaviour, is developed. The entrepreneur always asks for a wage reduction unaccompanied by a cut in labor services if the state is bad, and he sometimes makes the same request in the good state. The worker sometimes agrees to this request and sometimes threatens to strike. The strike threat is only carried out in the bad state. This equilibrium can Pareto dominate that found in the standard asymmetric ...
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作者：EBERTS, RW; STONE, JA
作者单位：University of Oregon
