Similar Search Results

Evaluating search and matching models using experimental data

Lise, Jeremy (contributor); Seitz, Shannon N. (contributor); … - 2005

This paper introduces an innovative test of search and matching models using the exogenous variation available in … experimental data. We take an off-the-shelf Pissarides matching model and calibrate it to data on the control group from a … randomized social experiment. We then simulate a program group from a randomized experiment within the model. As a measure of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003082102

Can active labor market policy be counter-productive?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2014

We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418002

Search, flows, job creations and destructions

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage formation. It argues that this renewal provides a very...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010355704

Increasing income inequality : productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading

Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010

In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941761

Efficiency in a search and matching model with endogenous participation

Albrecht, James W.; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan B. - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect … worker does not internalize the effect of his or her participation on average productivity. -- Search ; matching ; efficiency …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003830295

Application flows

Davis, Steven J.; Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda - 2024

We build and analyze a new U.S. database that links 125 million applications to job vacancies and employer-side clients on Dice.com, an online platform for jobs and workers in software design, computer systems, engineering, financial analysis, management consulting, and other occupations that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507889

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528571

How broadband internet affects labor market matching

Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Vigtel, … - 2020

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158733

Why is old workers' labor market more volatile? : unemployment fluctuations over the life-cycle

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014

Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339640

Does online search improve the match quality of new hires?

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418436

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last