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A model of competition between employed, short-term and long-term unemployed job searchers

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  • Broersma, Lourens

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics)

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This paper presents a model in which not only employed job search is endogenized, but also the phenomenon that long-term unemployed may become discouraged and stop searching for a job. When this model is applied to Dutch flow data, we find that this discouragement particularly took place in the early 1980’s. We also find that ,a mere stimulus to labour participation is not enough to solve the problem of the high long-term unemployment in The Netherlands.

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  • Broersma, Lourens, 1995. "A model of competition between employed, short-term and long-term unemployed job searchers," Serie Research Memoranda 0032, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
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    Keywords

    long-term unemployment; job searching; the Netherlands;
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    JEL classification:

    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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