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"Are you in the right job?" Human capital mismatch in the UK
Galanakis, Yannis - 2021 - Current Version: November 4, 2021
workers and firms, shows that job search frictions generate mismatch between employees and employers. In the empirical …
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604711
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Adverse selection, learning, and competitive search
Mayr, Karin - 2020
(2010). My model allows for an analysis of the effects of firm learning on labor market efficiency in the presence of search … priori. Numerical results show that firm learning does not increase labor market efficiency. …I develop a dynamic version of the competitive search model with adverse selection in Guerrieri, Shimer and Wright …
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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life
Filomenaa, Mattia; Giorgettia, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor … market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long …
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Wage cyclicality and labour market institutions
Pereira, João Manuel; Ramos, Raúl; Martins, Pedro S. - 2024 - This version: 29 July 2024
Do labour institutions influence how wages respond to the business cycle? Such responsiveness can then shape several economic outcomes, including unemployment. In this paper, we examine the role of two key labour market institutions - collective bargaining and temporary contracts - upon wage...
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Why is unemployment duration a sorting criterion in hiring?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Couck, Marijke de; Di … - 2017
Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates’ unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms underlying this pattern. To this end, we conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring...
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Long-term effects of hiring subsidies for unemployed youths - beware of spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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Testing for asymmetric employer learning and statistical discrimination
Ge, Suqin; Moro, Andrea; Zhu, Beibei - 2020
We test if firms statistically discriminate workers based on race when employer learning is asymmetric. Using data from the NLSY79, we find evidence of asymmetric employer learning. In addition, employers statistically discriminate against non-college educated black workers at time of hiring. We...
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Act early to prevent infections and save lives : causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic
Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2021
This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619669
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Institutions, holdup and automation
Presidente, Giorgio - 2021
What drives investment in automation technologies? This paper documents a positive relationship between labor … invest in automation is to thwart rent appropriation by labor. As a consequence, policies aimed at supporting workers …
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