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16. Essays on job market screening, in-group bias and school competition
Sammanfattning : This dissertation contains four essays in various fields of economics. The first paper shows how to construct a model of the labor market with multiple applications and goes on to show empirical support for such a model compared to the standard version. LÄS MER
17. Poverty and the dynamics of equilibrium unemployment : essays on the economics of job search, skills, and savings
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18. Commuting time choice and the value of travel time
Sammanfattning : In the modern industrialized society, a long commuting time is becoming more and more common. However, commuting results in a number of different costs, for example, external costs such as congestion and pollution as well as internal costs such as individual time consumption. LÄS MER
19. The unemployment process : studies of search, selection, and social mobility in the labor market
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to examine some particular aspects of the unemployment process, the process by which the risk of unemployment is distributed within a population. This process can be partitioned into five distinct stages; the initiation of a "negative work career", entry into unemployment, the situation during unemployment, exit from unemployment, and finally the long-term consequences of unemployment for the employment situation of the individual. LÄS MER
20. The Persistence of Unemployment: Does Competition between Employed and Unemployed Job Applicants Matter?
Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essaysEssay 1 (with Nils Gottfries) investigates why unemployment is so persistent in Europe. We formulate an efficiency wage model with on-the-job search where wages depend on turnover and employers may use information on whether the searching worker is employed or unemployed as a hiring criterion. LÄS MER
