Search Models and Applied Labor Economics

Name: Search Models and Applied Labor Economics
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ISBN: 9780521360531

ISBN-10: 0521360536

ISBN-13: 9780521360531

Edition: 1989

Authors: Nicholas M. Kiefer, George R. Neumann

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This collection of papers marks the development of empirical application of the search approach to labor economics--an approach which arose as a theoretical development of the 1960s and led to numerous insights in the 1970s. The search approach naturally incorporates uncertainty in the economic model, making up some of the early work in what is now called "the economics of information." Included are econometric issues such as estimation and specification of search models for wages and unemployment duration, continuous time models of turnover, and identification of structural parameters. Applications to policy questions including Unemployment Insurance and wage subsidy programs are given,…

Book details

List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/24/1989
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Bent Jesper Christensen is professor of economics and management at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. Nicholas M. Kiefer is the Ta-Chung Liu Professor in Economics and Statistical Science at Cornell University.




Introduction



Wages, Reservation Wages and Duration



Estimation of wage offer distributions and reservation wages



An empirical job-search model, with a test of the constant reservation-wage hypothesis



Individual effects in a nonlinear model: explicit treatment of heterogeneity in the empirical job-search model



Continuous-time Models of Duration



Earnings, unemployment, and the allocation of time over time



Choice or chance? A structural interpretation of individual labor market histories



Layoffs and duration dependence in a model of turnover



Applications



Structural and reduced form approaches to analyzing unemployment durations



Wages and the structure of unemployment rates



How long is a spell of unemployment? Illusions and biases in the use of CPS data



Mobility and Contracting



Employment risk and labor market diversification



A proposition and an example in the theory of job search with hours constraints



Interfirm mobility and earnings



Methods for analyzing employment contracts and other agreements


Index