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The Economics of Labor Market Intermediation: An Analytic Framework
Autor, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
, academic standing, or financial integrity. At their most forceful, LMIs such as labor unions and centralized job matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822049
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Using State Administrative Data to Measure Program Performance
Mueser, Peter; Troske, Kenneth R.; Gorislavsky, Alexey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
matching and a variety of methods using propensity score matching. In each case, we consider estimates based on levels of post … propensity score matching is generally most effective, but the detailed implementation of the method is not of critical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703237
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The Labor Market Consequences of Adverse Financial Shocks
Boeri, Tito; Garibaldi, Pietro; Moen, Espen R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor market volatility and Okun's elasticity over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570790
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Evaluating Search and Matching Models Using Experimental Data
Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in … experimental data. We take an off-the-shelf Pissarides matching model and calibrate it to data on the control group from a … randomized social experiment. We then simulate a program group from a randomized experiment within the model. As a measure of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703369
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Equilibrium Policy Experiments and the Evaluation of Social Programs
Lise, Jeremy; Seitz, Shannon; Smith, Jeffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP), an experiment providing generous financial incentives to exit welfare and obtain stable … control group and simulate the experiment within the model. The model matches the welfare-to-work transition of the treatment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822181
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703158
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Is Soccer Good for You? The Motivational Impact of Big Sporting Events on the Unemployed
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We examine the effect of salient international soccer tournaments on the motivation of unemployed individuals to search for employment using the German Socio Economic Panel 1984-2010. Exploiting the random scheduling of survey interviews, we find significant effects on motivational variables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884185
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Employment Verification Mandates and the Labor Market Outcomes of Likely Unauthorized and Native Workers
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
As recent efforts to reform immigration policy at the federal level have failed, states have started to take immigration matters into their own hands and researchers have been paying closer attention to state dynamics surrounding immigration policy. Yet, to this date, there is not a clear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884349
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Estimating Workforce Disposal in the Italian Labour Market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Italy's labour market suffers from a serious pathology, in addition to the increasing precariousness of the young workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast number of young individuals who lose their job only a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884397
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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective education and workforce development systems, focusing primarily (though not exclusively) on disadvantaged youth and adults, and with education and training more clearly targeted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548579