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Algorithmic Profiling: Effective Tool for Targeting Active Labour Market Policies?
LabourDigitisation has sparked interest in automated decision making in Public Employment Services (PES). We evaluate an algorithmic profiling model in Austria that predicts the reemployment prospects of unemployed individuals to classify and assign them to ...
R. Eppel +3 more
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The Value of Reference Letters: Experimental Evidence from South Africa
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020We show that reference letters from former employers alleviate information frictions in a low-skill labor market, improving applicant screening and gender equity.
M. Abel, R. Burger, Patrizio Piraino
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A Simple Explanation of Countercyclical Uncertainty
American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsThis paper documents that labor search and matching frictions generate countercyclical uncertainty because the inherent nonlinearity in the flow of new matches makes employment uncertainty increasing in the number of people searching for work ...
J. Bernstein +3 more
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Assessing the Stabilizing Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions
American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsWe study the stabilizing role of benefit extensions. We develop a tractable quantitative model with heterogeneous agents, search frictions, and nominal rigidities.
Alexey Gorn, A. Trigari
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Disemployment Effects of Unemployment Insurance: A Meta-Analysis
Social Science Research NetworkWe systematically review studies of how unemployment benefits affect unemployment duration. Statistically significant findings are eight times more likely to be published. Correcting for publication bias cuts the average elasticity by a third.
J. Cohen, P. Ganong
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Information Frictions and Skill Signaling in the Youth Labor Market
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyThis paper provides evidence that information frictions limit the labor market trajectories of US youth. We provide credible skill signals—recommendation letters based on supervisor feedback—to a random subset of 43,409 participants in New York’s summer ...
Sara B Heller, Judd B. Kessler
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Asymmetric Reciprocity and the Cyclical Behavior of Wages, Effort, and Job Creation
American Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsThis paper develops a search and matching framework in which workers are characterized by asymmetric reference-dependent reciprocity and firms set wages by considering the effect that these can have on workers’ effort and, therefore, on output.
Marco Fongoni
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Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Evidence from a Field Experiment*
, 2013Kory Kroft +2 more
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The Effect of Unemployment Benefits and Nonemployment Durations on Wages
, 2016Johannes F. Schmieder +2 more
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