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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....

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Matching through search channels

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Kaas, Leo; Lochner, Benjamin - 2023

Firms and workers predominately match via job postings, networks of personal contacts or the public employment agency, all of which help to ameliorate labor market frictions. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these search channels have differential effects on labor market...

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The dynamics of networks and homophily

Jackson, Matthew O.; Nei, Stephen M.; Snowberg, Erik; … - 2023

, connections increase over time, but homophily on gender and ethnicity is relatively constant across time, university residences … layers. Furthermore, we see assortativity in homophilous tendencies. There is weaker, albeit significant, homophily over …

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Friendship networks and political opinions : a natural experiment among future French politicians

Algan, Yann; Dalvit, Nicolò; Do, Quoc-Anh; Le … - 2023

differences in opinions by 40% of the standard deviation of opinion gap. The evidence is consistent with a homophily …

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Homophily and transmission of behavioral traits in social networks

Bhargava, Palaash; Chen, Daniel L.; Sutter, Matthias; … - 2023

other demographic characteristics (Jackson, 2010). We present novel evidence on an understudied source of homophily … than 2,500 French high-school students, we find high levels of homophily across all ten behavioral traits that we study …. Notably, the extent of homophily depends on similarities in demographic characteristics, in particular with respect to gender …

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Social interactions, mechanisms, and equilibrium : evidence from a model of study time and academic achievement

Conley, Timothy G.; Mehta, Nirav; Stinebrickner, Ralph; … - 2018

We develop and estimate a model of student study time on a social network. The model is designed to exploit unique data collected in the Berea Panel Study. Study time data allow us to quantify an intuitive mechanism for academic social interactions: own study time may depend on friend study time...

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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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Age discrimination across the business cycle

Dahl, Gordon B.; Knepper, Matthew - 2020

A key prediction of discrimination models is that competition in the labor market serves as a moderating force on employer discrimination. In the presence of market frictions, however, recessions create excess labor supply and thus generate opportunities to engage in discriminatory behaviors far...

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Reforming an insider-outsider labor market : the Spanish experience

Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2011

This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...

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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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