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A note on the calculation of firm-specific and skill-specific labor costs from firm-level data

Kaiser, Ulrich - 2000

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Selection into trade and wage inequality

Sampson, Thomas - 2012

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Matching in the Dark? Inequalities in student to degree match

Campbell, Stuart; Macmillan, Lindsey; Murphy, Richard; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper examines inequalities in the match between student and degree quality using linked administrative data from schools, universities and tax authorities. We analyse two measures of match at the university-subject level: undergraduate enrollment qualifications, and graduate earnings. We...

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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching

Orefice, Gianluca - 2020

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …

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Labor Market Implications of Education MisMatch

Cervantes, Carla Varona - 2020

This project studies the impact of education mismatch on labor outcomes. Across our sample of OECD countries, there is evidence of mismatch in education choices and labor markets. Labor market outcomes are not independent of education mismatch. Our framework for analysis is a dynamic choice...

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Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs : a labor market sorting view

Faia, Ester; Laffitte, Sébastien; Mayer, Maximilian; … - 2020

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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment

Bils, Mark - 2009

We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and …

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...

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Matching Capital and Labor

Berk, Jonathan B. - 2014

We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...

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Mismatch Unemployment

Şahin, Ayşegül - 2012

We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...

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