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Explaining youth labor market problems in Spain : crowding-out, institutions, or technology shifts?
Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2000
-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also presents a simple matching model with two types of workers ("educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325977
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Different skill levels and firing costs in a matching model with uncertainty : an extension of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)
Kohns, Stephan - 2000
A matching model in the line of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) is augmented with a lowskill labor market and firing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318592
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Automation, globalization and vanishing jobs : a labor market sorting view
Faia, Ester; Laffitte, Sébastien; Mayer, Maximilian; … - 2020
efficient assortative matching between firms with heterogeneous tasks and workers with heterogeneous skills. Our key hypothesis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222391
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Trade competition, technology and labour reallocation
Baziki, Selva Bahar; Ginja, Rita; Borota Milicevic, Teodora - 2016
Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative matching of workers in ICT (information and communication … intensity do not exhibit these sorting patterns. A labour market matching model explains the increased assortative matching in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502396
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Occupational routine-intensity and the costs of job loss : evidence from mass layoffs
Blien, Uwe; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2019
This paper analyses how differences in the degree of occupational routine-intensity affect the costs of job loss. We use worker-level data on mass layoffs in Germany between 1980 and 2010 and provide causal evidence that workers who used to be employed in more routine-intensive occupations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149049
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Technological change, organizational change, and job turnover
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan - 2002
This paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel data set to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412907
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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250022
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Sasser, Alicia; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2023
occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the … with an increased demand for software skills. We also find evidence that upskilling contributed to reduced matching … efficiency in certain segments of the US labor market as well as in the aggregate. In particular, matching efficiency was lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419499
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412072
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Offshoring and skill-biased technical change in the context of US protectionism
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2019
We discuss the effects of offshoring on the labor market in a matching model with endogenous adjustment of educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107297