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Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers

Hall, Robert E. - 2015

Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …

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Sorting between and within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching

Abowd, John M. - 2014

workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …

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The Spatial Mismatch between Innovation and Joblessness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2019

American technological creativity is geographically concentrated in areas that are generally distant from the country's most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without...

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Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function : The Power of Words

Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2016

elasticity of labor supply. Thus, our results uncover the previously undocumented power of words in the job matching process …

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Beyond Cobb-Douglas : Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency

Lange, Fabian; Papageorgiou, Theodore - 2022

the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …

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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries

Meghir, Costas - 2012

It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...

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Mismatch Unemployment

Sahin, Aysegul - 2012

We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...

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Rent-Sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data

Card, David - 2010

When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...

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Constrained Job Matching : Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Search theory suggests that early career job changes on balance lead to better matches that benefit both workers and firms, but this may not hold in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial differences in working conditions that are difficult...

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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Andersson, Fredrik - 2014

This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employer-employee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. The basic...

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