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Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function : The Power of Words

Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2016

elasticity of labor supply. Thus, our results uncover the previously undocumented power of words in the job matching process …

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Mismatch Unemployment

Sahin, Aysegul - 2012

We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...

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The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring

Davis, Steven J. - 2010

addition to vacancies, as they vary hires. Building from our evidence and a generalized matching function, we construct a new … matching function, delivers a better-fitting empirical Beveridge Curve, and accounts for a large share of fluctuations in … search, matching and hiring in the labor market …

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The Amplification of Unemployment Fluctuations Through Self-Selection

Hall, Robert E. - 2021

Unemployment arises from frictions in the matching of job-seekers and employers. The level of resources that employers …

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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries

Meghir, Costas - 2012

It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...

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Job Displacement and the Duration of Joblessness : The Role of Spatial Mismatch

Andersson, Fredrik - 2014

This paper presents a new approach to the measurement of the effects of spatial mismatch that takes advantage of matched employer-employee administrative data integrated with a person-specific job accessibility measure, as well as demographic and neighborhood characteristics. The basic...

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Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires

Gertler, Mark - 2016

Macroeconomic models often incorporate some form of wage stickiness to help account for employment fluctuations. However, a recent literature calls in to question this approach, citing evidence of new hire wage cyclicality from panel data studies as evidence for contractual wage flexibility for...

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Constrained Job Matching : Does Teacher Job Search Harm Disadvantaged Urban Schools?

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2010

Search theory suggests that early career job changes on balance lead to better matches that benefit both workers and firms, but this may not hold in teacher labor markets characterized by salary rigidities, barriers to entry, and substantial differences in working conditions that are difficult...

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Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers

Hall, Robert E. - 2015

Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …

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Do Unemployment Insurance Benefits Improve Match and Employer Quality? Evidence from Recent U.S. Recessions

Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D.; Muratori, Umberto - 2022

Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits have a moral hazard effect and a liquidity effect, with both generating increases in unemployment spells but the latter increasing wages due to the ability to find better matches or better jobs. Previous papers, however, find mixed evidence on the impact of...

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