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Mismatch Unemployment in Austria : The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve...

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Motivation and Incentives in an Online Labor Market

Fest, Sebastian - 2019

In this paper we present results from a large scale real effort experiment in an online labor market investigating the effect of performance pay and two common leadership techniques: Positive expectations and specific goals. We find that positive expectations have a significant negative effect...

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Hiring Through Referrals in a Labor Market with Adverse Selection

Dariel, Aurelie - 2019

Information asymmetries can prevent markets from operating efficiently. An important example is the labor market, where employers face uncertainty about the productivity of job candidates. We examine theoretically and with laboratory experiments three key questions related to hiring via...

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Broadband internet: An information superhighway to sex crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - 2012

highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …

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Dynamics and Endogeneity of Firms' Recruitment Behaviour

Ehrenfried, Felix - 2019

Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job … seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment … behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and argue that stock-flow matching models - if suitably amended by a …

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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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A Congestion Theory of Unemployment Fluctuations

Mercan, Yusuf; Schoefer, Benjamin; Sedlacek, Petr - 2021

In recessions, unemployment increases despite the—perhaps counterintuitive—fact that thenumber of unemployed workers finding jobs expands. On net, unemployment rises only becauseeven more workers lose their jobs. We propose a theory of unemployment fluctuations resting onthis...

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Vacancy referrals, job search, and the duration of unemployment: a randomized experiment

Engström, Per; Hesselius, Patrik; Holmlund, Bertil - 2009

One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies …

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Job search, human capital and wage inequality

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012

The objective of this paper is to construct and quantitatively assess an equilibrium search model with on-the-job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers enter the labour market with different abilities and firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed...

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