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learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed intuitively in light of Spence's original … value of job market signaling …
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The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … characteristics of unemployed, using the standard aggregate matching function. Consistent with the findings for the US (Barnichon and …
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and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an … efficiency wage model, we find that there is no Todaro paradox while this is not always true in a search-matching model since a …
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We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex …
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Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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Firms may be reluctant to provide general training if workers can quit and use their gained skills elsewhere. "Training contracts" that impose a penalty for premature quitting can help alleviate this inefficiency. Using plausibly exogenous contractual variation from a leading trucking firm, we...
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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by migration or information frictions. I analyze three sector-specific shocks with differential local effects, including … student-level data, I find this is not explained by information frictions, but more likely by migration frictions. The results …
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