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Matching efficiency and heterogeneous workers in the UK
Lisauskaitė, Elena - 2022
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 … in efficiency in matching unemployed workers and available vacancies. Accounting for labour market segmentation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414379
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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments
Wasmer, Etienne - 2002
This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412475
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Regional equilibrium unemployment theory at the age of the internet
Lutgen, Vanessa; Van der Linden, Bruno - 2013
there is nowadays much simpler than in the past. Search-matching externalities are amplified by this possibility and by the … expected, increasing matching effectiveness in the other region yields growing regional unemployment rates. We characterize the … optimal allocation and conclude that the Hosios condition is not sufficient to restore efficiency. In the efficient allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221545
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The finite sample performance of inference methods for propensity score matching and weighting estimators
Bodory, Hugo; Camponovo, Lorenzo; Huber, Martin; … - 2016
-based matching and weighting estimators frequently applied to evaluate the average treatment effect on the treated. We analyse both … ones in terms of size and power for both matching and weighting estimators. Furthermore, the results are qualitatively …
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New evidence on long-term effects of start-up subsidies : matching estimates and their robustness
Caliendo, Marco; Tübbicke, Stefan - 2019
. Using propensity score matching (PSM) as our main empirical approach, we provide estimates of long-term effects of the post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997323
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Long-run effects of dynamically assigned treatments : a new methodology and an evaluation of training effects on earnings
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan - 2019
We propose and implement a new method to estimate treatment effects in settings where individuals need to be in a certain state (e.g. unemployment) to be eligible for a treatment, treatments may commence at different points in time, and the outcome of interest is realized after the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035113
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Occupational choice and matching in the labor market
Mak, Eric; Siow, Aloysius - 2017
Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613424
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Using Internet data to analyse the labour market : a methodological enquiry
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavý, Miroslav; Thum, … - 2014
With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417991
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Trends in earnings inequality and earnings instability among US couples : how important is assortative matching?
Hryshko, Dmytro; Juhn, Chinhui; McCue, Kristin - 2014
We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period using two U.S. panel data sets: Social Security earnings data matched to Survey of Income and Program Participation panels (SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460789
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Information frictions and labor market outcomes
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015
We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...
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