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Identifying sorting: in theory
Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - 2009
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal …
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …
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Matching bias in labor demand estimation
Aguilar, Giovanna; Rendón, Sílvio - 2007
Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276390
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Age and skill bias of trade liberalisation? : heterogeneous employment effects of EU Eastern Enlargement
Fries, Jan - 2014
This study analyses the 2004 Eastern Enlargement to the European Union to obtain evidence on the employment effects of an increase in trade liberalisation. The Enlargement is thought to generate a trade-induced demand shock with no (or only limited) supply effects. Besides the variation over...
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Short-time work benefits revisited: Some lessons from the Great Recession
Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2011
The Great Recession triggered a resurgence of short-time work (STW) throughout the OECD. Several countries introduced from scratch STW or significantly expanded the scope of the programmes already in place. In some countries like Italy, Japan and Germany between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the...
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Labor market effects of unemployment insurance design
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; van Ours, Jan C. - 2012
With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design, including...
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Employment Protection, Firm Selection, and Growth
Poschke, Markus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyzes the effect of firing costs on aggregate productivity growth. For thispurpose, a model of endogenous growth through selection and imitation is developed. It isconsistent with recent evidence on firm dynamics and on the importance of reallocation forproductivity growth...
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Individualism vs. collectivism : how inherited cultural values affect labor market outcomes of second generation immigrants in the US
Höckel, Lisa Sofie - 2017
The labor market performance of second generation immigrants is a crucial determinant of integration. Labor market returns to their different cultural traits, however, have been rarely researched within the economic literature. This study provides insight on the link between the level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592698
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Social interactions in the labor market
Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011
We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...
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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market
Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006
individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two … considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the fraction of very satisfied workers from 53.8 to 58.8 percent …
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