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Rent Rigidity, Asymmetric Information, and Volatility Bounds in Labor Markets

Bruegemann, Bjoern - 2007

under asymmetric information: at best they generate rigid rents but not rigid wages …

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Burstein, Ariel - 2011

Capital equipment - such as computers and industrial machinery - embodies skill-biased technology, in the sense that it is complementary to skilled labor. Most countries import a large share of their capital equipment, and by doing so import skill-biased technology. In this paper we develop a...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption...

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Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market

Rogerson, Richard - 2010

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...

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Labour Market Institutions Without Blinders : The Debate over Flexibility and Labour Market Performance

Freeman, Richard B. - 2005

The debate over the influence of labour market flexibility on performance is unlikely to be settled by additional studies using aggregate data and making cross-country comparisons. While this approach holds little promise, micro-analysis of workers and firms and increased use of experimental...

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Age, Cohort and Co-Authorship

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2015

The previously documented trend toward more co- and multi-authored research in economics is partly (perhaps 20 percent) due to different research styles of scholars in different birth cohorts (of different ages). Most of the trend reflects profession-wide changes in research style. Older...

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Social Experiments in the Labor Market

Rothstein, Jesse - 2016

Large-scale social experiments were pioneered in labor economics, and are the basis for much of what we know about topics ranging from the effect of job training to incentives for job search to labor supply responses to taxation. Random assignment has provided a powerful solution to selection...

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Interpreting Recent Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Effects of Unemployment Benefit Extensions

Hagedorn, Marcus - 2016

Marinescu (2015) employs a methodology that does not attempt to address these challenges. A more innovative approach in Coglianese (2015) and Chodorow-Reich and Karabarbounis (2016) attempts to overcome these challenges by exploiting a sampling error in unemployment rates as an exogenous...

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Recovering Overlooked Information in Categorical Variables with LLMs : An Application to Labor Market Mismatch

Chen, Yi; Fang, Hanming; Zhao, Yi; Zhao, Zibo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

novel method that utilizes recent advances in large language models (LLMs) to recover overlooked information in categorical …, and at the same time, we highlight the LLM's capability to provide additional information conditional on the traditional … information than the administrative data, which makes it impossible to compute most of the traditional match quality measures. Our …

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Application Flows

Davis, Steven J.; Samaniego de la Parra, Brenda - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We build and analyze a new U.S. database that links 125 million applications to job vacancies and employer-side clients on Dice.com, an online platform for jobs and workers in software design, computer systems, engineering, financial analysis, management consulting, and other occupations that...

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