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Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin : The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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Graduate Employment in the UK : An Application of the Gottschalk-Hansen Model

Grazier, Suzanne; O'Leary, Nigel; Sloane, Peter J. - 2021

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates of return to graduates or graduate markups show high returns, suggesting that demand has kept up with a rapidly rising supply of graduates, the literature on over-education...

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Selection Wages : An Example

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2021

Offering higher wages may enable firms to attract more applicants and screen them more carefully. If firms compete in this way in the labor market, "selection wages" emerge. This note illustrates this wage-setting mechanism. Selection wages may engender unconventional results, such as a pre-tax...

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Grades and Employer Learning

Hansen, Anne Toft; Hvidman, Ulrik; Sievertsen, Hans Henrik - 2021

This study examines the labor-market returns of skill signals. We identify the labor-market effect of grade point averages (GPA) by leveraging a nationwide change in the scaling of grades in Danish universities. Results show that a reform-induced increase in GPA that is unrelated to ability...

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Local Labor Markets and Human Capital Investments

Weinstein, Russell - 2017

by migration or information frictions. I analyze three sector-specific shocks with differential local effects, including … student-level data, I find this is not explained by information frictions, but more likely by migration frictions. The results …

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Benefit Duration, Unemployment Duration and Job Match Quality : A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

Caliendo, Marco - 2010

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...

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The Impact of Educational Mismatch on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Linked Panel Data

Kampelmann, Stephan - 2013

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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Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation

Aguilar, Giovanna - 2007

Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching …

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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René - 2006

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

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The Effectiveness of Hiring Credits

Cahuc, Pierre - 2018

search and matching model. Simulations of counterfactual policies show that the effectiveness of the hiring credit relied to …

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