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Labor market regulation and firm adjustments in skill demand
Bottasso, Anna; Bratti, Massimiliano; Cardullo, Gabriele; … - 2023
search and matching model with heterogeneous skills and contract durations rationalizes our main findings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310531
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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC
Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2016
We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating that literacy declines with age, especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497120
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Ageing and skills : the case of literacy skills
Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2019
The relationship between ageing and skills is of growing policy significance due to population ageing, the changing nature of work and the importance of literacy for social and economic well-being. This article examines the relationship between age and literacy skills in a sample of OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011965093
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Mismatch unemployment in Austria: the role of regional labour markets for skills
Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021
During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve...
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Benefit duration, unemployment duration and job match quality : a regression-discontinuity approach
Caliendo, Marco; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2009
The generosity of the Unemployment Insurance system (UI) plays a central role for the job search behavior of unemployed individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or entitlement, has a negative impact on the job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003932248
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Better workers move to better firms : a simple test to identify sorting
Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - 2013
strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive … (negative) assortative matching, good workers are more (less) likely to move to better firms than bad workers. Assuming that … matching is pervasive in the labor market. This result is in contrast with what we find from correlating the worker and firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125811
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The impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity : evidence from linked panel data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2012
We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely on representative linked employer-employee panel data for Belgium covering the period 1999-2006. Controlling for simultaneity issues, time-invariant unobserved workplace...
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Do the higher educated unemployed crowd out the lower educated ones in a competition for jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2002
levels. We estimate the structural parameters of a matching function generalised to incorporate crowding out effects. We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412393
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The skill bias effect of technological and organisational change : evidence and policy implications
Piva, Mariacristina (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001829761
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The changing situation of loabor market entrants in Germany : a long-run analysis of wages and occupational patterns
Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive,...
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