the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low … gains of more skill formation outweigh the social welfare losses of increased unemployment. Using a highly conservative …

As skills of labor-market entrants are usually not directly observed by employers, individuals acquire skill signals …-resource managers to choose. We find that signals in all three studied domains - cognitive skills, social skills, and maturity - have a …. While GPAs and social skills are significant for both genders, males are particularly rewarded for maturity and females for …

. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to …

employees and self-employed workers, unemployment rates and value added per capita account for more than half of the negative …