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Mass Layoffs and Unemployment
Andrew Caplin
John Vincent Leahy
出版
National Bureau of Economic Research
, 1994
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xV5OMjtzDKYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Mass layoffs give rise to groups of unemployed workers who possess similar characteristics and therefore may learn from one another's experience searching for a new job. Two factors lead them to be too selective in the job offers that they accept. The first is an information externality: searchers fail to take into account the value of their experience to others. The second is an incentive to free ride: each worker would like others to experiment and reveal information concerning productive jobs. Together these forces imply that in equilibrium the natural rate of unemployment is too high.