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Offshoring, matching, and wage inequality : theory and evidence

Kim, Gueyon; Lee, Dohyeon; Pozzoli, Dario - 2025

across firms. By constructing a Becker-type worker-firm matching model in a global economy, we demonstrate underlying …

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Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022

This chapter surveys recent literature on social networks and labour markets, with a specific focus on developing countries. It reviews existing research, in particular, on the use of social networks for hiring and the consequences of networks for on-the-job outcomes, including emerging...

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Preference signaling and worker-firm matching: evidence from interview auctions

Laschever, Ron A.; Weinstein, Russell - 2021

We study whether there are improvements in worker-firm matching when employers and applicants can credibly signal their … analyze a matching process in which firms fill some of their inter- view slots by invitation and the remainder are filled by … an auction. Consistent with the predictions of a signaling model, we find the auction is valuable for less desirable …

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Revisiting the matching function

Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2014

negative time trend in estimated matching functions. In addition, the full nonlinear combined model generates highly asymmetric …

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Homeownership and labour market outcomes : micro versus macro performances

Beugnot, Julie; Lacroix, Guy; Charlot, Olivier - 2014

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

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The quality-adjusted cyclical price of labor

Bils, Mark; Kudlyak, Marianna; Lins, Paulo - 2023

Typical measures of wages, such as average hourly earnings, fail to capture cyclicality in the effective cost of labor in the presence of (i) cyclical fluctuations in the quality of worker-firm matches, or (ii) wages being smoothed within employment matches. To address both concerns, we estimate...

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Why does starting school older harm schooling? : the role of youth employment laws

Attar, Itay; Cohen-Zada, Danny - 2025

Using Israeli data, we establish that the interaction between school entrance age (SEA) policy and youth employment laws increases high school dropout rates among students who start school older - particularly males. This is because these students become eligible for employment at an earlier...

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Work hours mismatch

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Saggio, Raffaele; … - 2024

Using a revealed preference approach applied to administrative data from Washington we document that workers have limited discretion over hours at a given employer, there is substantial mismatch between workers who prefer long hours and employers that provide short hours, and hour constraints...

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Employee training and wage dispersion : white and blue collar workers in Britain

Almeida-Santos, Filipe; Chzhen, Yekaterina; Mumford, Karen - 2010

We use household panel data to explore the wage returns associated with training incidence and intensity (duration) for British employees. We find these returns differ depending on the nature of the training; who funds the training; the skill levels of the recipient (white or blue collar); the...

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Dual returns to experience

Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Hospido, Laura; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2021

In this paper we study human capital accumulation and wage trajectories of young workers in a dual labor market. Using rich administrative data for Spain, we follow workers since labor market entry to measure experience accumulated under different contractual arrangements and relate it to...

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