This paper shows that changes in the skill requirements of jobs are one way by which economic downturns affect job match quality. In doing so this paper makes two contributions to the literature. The first contribution is to document a stylized fact about the cyclicality of skill requirements...

Examples of educational mismatch and overqualifcation in the labour market can often be found in the same office building – the clerical worker with a bachelor’s degree reporting to a manager with a high school education – as an example. Some have argued that mismatch in...

Il est largement prouvé que les travailleurs déplacés possédant une longue ancienneté professionnelle ont souvent des difficultés à retrouver un nouvel emploi et subissent en général une baisse de gains lorsqu'ils en trouvent un. Pour ceux ayant une très longue ancienneté, les pertes...

It is well-documented that workers displaced from long-tenure jobs tend to have difficulty finding new employment, and face even greater difficulty finding a job without suffering a substantial loss in earnings. Workers with significant prior tenure typically undergo substantial earnings losses,...