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Opening the Black Box of the Matching Function : the Power of Words
Marinescu, Ioana - 2016
elasticity of labor supply. Thus, our results uncover the previously undocumented power of words in the job matching process …
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Monopsony in Online Labor Markets
Dube, Arindrajit - 2018
of the largest on-demand labor platforms, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), by measuring the elasticity of labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453298
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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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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space
Lambert, Peter; Hansen, Stephen; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023
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Why You Can't Find a Taxi in the Rain and Other Labor Supply Lessons from Cab Drivers
Farber, Henry S. - 2014
In a seminal paper, Camerer, Babcock, Loewenstein, and Thaler (1997) find that the wage elasticity of daily hours of …
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Do Gender-Neutral Job Ads Promote Diversity? Experimental Evidence from Latin America's Tech Sector
Del Carpio, Lucía; Fujiwara, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Gendered-grammar languages like Spanish are spoken by 39% of the world's population. In a field experiment in partnership with a Spanish-speaking online platform for technology positions, ads randomly selected to use gender-neutral language receive a larger share of female applicants for...
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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space
Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...
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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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The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies in the US and Europe
Justiniano, Alejandro - 2011
We set-up a real business cycle model with search and matching frictions driven by several shocks, which nests full … probabilities observed in US, with mixed success in Europe. In contrast, matching shocks and job destruction shocks play a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461229
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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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