Essays on Unemployment and Labor Supply
Contrary to the predictions of standard reservation-wage search models, empirical studies consistently find that an extension of UI increases unemployment duration \textit{without} improving subsequent wages. Chapter 1 addresses this puzzle in two steps. First, using administrative data from Austria...
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Harvard University
2014
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11557 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:12274505 |