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The Spatial Mismatch Between Innovation and Joblessness

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2019

American technological creativity is geographically concentrated in areas that are generally distant from the country's most persistent pockets of joblessness. Could a more even spatial distribution of innovation reduce American joblessness? Could Federal policies disperse innovation without...

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Mismatch and Assimilation

Wang, Ping - 2018

Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...

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Beyond Cobb-Douglas : Flexibly Estimating Matching Functions with Unobserved Matching Efficiency

Lange, Fabian - 2020

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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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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Analyzing the Determinants of the Matching Public School Teachers to Jobs : Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets

Boyd, Donald - 2003

approach is based on a game-theoretic two-sided matching model and the estimation strategy employs the method of simulated …

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...

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Sorting Between and Within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching

Abowd, John M. - 2014

workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …

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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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Workplace Heterogeneity and the Rise of West German Wage Inequality

Card, David - 2012

different establishments, and increasing assortativeness in the matching of workers to plants. We use the models to decompose …

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Mismatch Unemployment

Şahin, Ayşegül - 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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