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Title: Essays on Job Search and Labor Markets
Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis
Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: This dissertation contains three essays on the topics of job search and labor markets. The first essay studies effects of occupational credentials on unemployment duration. Using a random search model we theorize that occupational credentials in the form of licenses and certificates reduce unemployment duration through improvements in human capital, provision of better signalling, or both. Whichever credential has the stronger effect remains an empirical question. Since the questions about occupational credentials have recently been added to large population surveys in the US, the topic is relatively nascent; and we find that certificates issued by businesses as well as licenses decrease unemployment duration while the former has the stronger effect that the latter. The second and third essays study effects of immigration and linguistic assimilation on growth in native employment. The second essay studies those effects in the context of five European countries whereas the third essay studies those effects in the US case. The second essay derives a search and matching model to demonstrate that immigrants having higher search costs than natives, join the host country economy and boost native employment, accepting lower wages and driving firms’ costs down. The second essay also develops a novel index to measure linguistically assimilated and linguistically unassimilated areas using Google Trends search data whereas the third essay relies on self-reported data on linguistically isolated households. Findings from both essays are similar: inflows of new immigrants into linguistically assimilated areas increase growth in native employment. However, the second essay, with the exception of France, demonstrates that inflows into linguistically unassimilated areas do not show evidence of the effects in contrast to the case of the US. However, further applications of the index derived in the second essay to the case of the US will shed some light on the comparability of the results.
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Authors: Kukaev, Ilya
Institution: Lehigh University
Department: Department of Economics
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Pages: 1-182
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Poverty and Welfare
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