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Wage Determination and Employment Fluctuations
Hall, Robert E. - 2021
employers, as measured by vacancies, are low. A model of matching frictions explains the qualitative responses of the labor …
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Can Fixed-Term Contracts Put Low Skilled Youth on a Better Career Path? Evidence from Spain
Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016
By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However, the long-term impact of fixed-term contracts on these workers' careers may be negative. Using Spanish social security data, we analyze the impact of a large liberalization in...
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The Youth Labor Market in the 80s : Determinants of Re-Employment Probabilities for Young Men and Women
Lynch, Lisa M. - 2010
This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of re-employment probabilities for young workers in the U.S. Using data from the new National Longitudinal Survey youth cohort a model is developed to analyze the transition probabilities from nonemployment to employment. The key factors...
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Why is There a Youth Labor Market Problem?
Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
This paper examines what is known about the causes of the high and increasing levels of youth joblessness and related problems in the youth labor market. Partly because of inconsistencies in reported rates of youth employment across surveys and partly because of problems in measuring key social...
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The Impact of the Market and the Family on Youth Employment and Labor Supply
Gustman, Alan L.; Steinmeier, Thomas L. - 2021
This paper analyzes the school enrollment and labor supply decisions of teenagers and young adults as jointly deter-mined outcomes. The empirical results are based on an application of discrete multivariate analysis to a sample taken from the Survey of Income and Education. Higher relative wage...
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Labor Market Implications of Education Mismatch
Varona, Carla; Cooper, Russell - 2022
This project studies the impact of education mismatch on labor outcomes. Across our sample of OECD countries, there is evidence of mismatch in educational attainment and labor markets. Labor market outcomes are not independent of education mismatch. Our framework for analysis is a dynamic choice...
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
Acemoglu, Daron - 2011
This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years. Furthermore, the recent increase in inequality is most likely due to an...
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Search and Rest Unemployment
Alvarez, Fernando - 2010
This paper extends Lucas and Prescott's (1974) search model to develop a notion of rest unemployment. The economy consists of a continuum of labor markets, each of which produces a heterogeneous good. There is a constant returns to scale production technology in each labor market, but labor...
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Firm and Worker Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market
Bilal, Adrien - 2019
This paper develops a random-matching model of a frictional labor market with firm and worker dynamics. Multi …
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Beyond Cobb-Douglas : Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency
Lange, Fabian; Papageorgiou, Theodore - 2022
the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …
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