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Estimations of Occupational and Regional Matching Efficiencies Using Stochastic Production Frontier Models

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2002

By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed and vacancies, this paper … region, the methodology produces estimates of the relative importance of demand and supply factors for the creation of new … jobs, and of the overall efficiency of job creation. Some crucial determinants of the overall matching efficiency are …

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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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The Matching Efficiency of Regional Labour Markets A Stochastic Production Frontier Estimation, France 1990-1995

Ibourk, Aomar; Maillard, Bénédicte; Perelman, Sergio; … - 2001

We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb- Douglas production frontier … firms and workers characteristics. Regional differences in matching efficiency are fairly stable over time and negatively …

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When, where and how to perform efficiency estimation

Badunenko, Oleg; Henderson, Daniel J.; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011

In this paper we compare two flexible estimators of technical efficiency in a cross-sectional setting: the nonparametric kernel SFA estimator of Fan, Li and Weersink (1996) to the nonparametric bias corrected DEA estimator of Kneip, Simar and Wilson (2008). We assess the finite sample...

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: evidence from Europe's top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - 2009

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firms' performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset consisting of 532 top...

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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - 2014

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market

Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning … relate this to the skill distribution of workers in the firm. We find that there is positive assortative matching, in …

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Equilibrium unemployment and retirement

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Zylberberg, Andre - 2012

As a preliminary step, we first provide some new empirical evidence that labor market conditions affect retirement decisions at the individual level: unemployed people are more likely to retire. Our main objective in this paper is then to propose an equilibrium unemployment approach to...

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Does immigration policy affect the education-occupation mismatch? Evidence from Australia

Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...

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