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How broadband internet affects labor market matching
Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Vigtel, … - 2020
How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661555
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An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2007
In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning … relate this to the skill distribution of workers in the firm. We find that there is positive assortative matching, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317919
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No education, no good jobs? Evidence from the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007
assortative matching according to workers' individual preferences. Lastly, for both wage differentials and mobility, there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278304
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Networks and youth labor market entry
Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2013
element in the job-matching process and survey the empirical literature on labor market networks with an emphasis on studies …
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Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes
Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2013
. Our point of departure is the Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals which suggests that it is optimal for firms to … hire new workers through referrals from their most productive existing employees, as these employees are more likely to … that firms use referrals of productive employees in order to attract workers with better qualities in dimensions that would …
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Seeking similarity: How immigrants and natives manage at the labor market
Åslund, Olof; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We show that immigrant managers are substantially more likely to hire immigrants than are native managers. The finding holds when comparing establishments in the same 5-digit industry and location, when comparing different establishments within the same firm, when analyzing establishments that...
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Paths to higher office: Evidence from the Swedish civil service
Brösamle, Klaus J.; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2011
The paper analyzes the relationship between career path characteristics of civil servants and their career success. Following a description of the institutional setting and some qualitative evidence on typical paths to the top, we use data that follows the careers of all Swedish civil servants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321122
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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under … stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292209
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Cheap search, picky workers? Evidence from a field experiment
Mayr, Harald - 2022
Search frictions impede the labor market. Despite this indisputable fact, it is a priori unclear how job search costs affect search duration and unemployment: lower search costs make it easier to find a job, reducing search duration and unemployment, but may also increase the reservation wage,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164123
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model - even if wages are only occasionally renegotiated. We argue that one source of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796511