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Labor market pooling is considered one of the advantages of agglomerations. This paper presents a model of human capital formation in an imperfectly competitive, pooled local labor market with heterogeneous workers and firms. Firms produce with different technologies requiring diverse skills....
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With the beginning of the new millennium it has become more and more apparent that education and human capital constitute a key element of modern economies. Despite the important role of human capital in modern societies, there are still many unknowns about the process of educational production...
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The paper analyzes the joint evolution of accumulation and distribution of human capital in an OLG framework. Dynamics arise from the interplay between human capital distribution and individual variables--inherited human capital and inborn ability. Such interaction drives individual investment...
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. Moreover, it is shown that the neglect of endogenous but not observable behavior in the empirical literature on labor matching … leads to systematically biased estimates of the matching elasticities, posing a caveat on the results of previous studies … testing for constant returns of the matching function. The theoretical model presented allows to predict the direction of the …
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In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...
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This paper examines the effects of transitory skill mismatch in a matching model with heterogeneous jobs and workers …
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based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …
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This paper analyzes the problem of matching heterogeneous agents in a Bayesian learning model. One agent gives a noisy … cross-matching occurs, so that agents of low knowledge catch up with those of higher one. It is shown that: (i) a greater … informational component in production makes cross-matching more likely; (ii) as the new technology is mastered, production becomes …
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. -- Wage Rigidity ; Search and Matching Model ; Business Cycle …
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This study addresses the question: Are workers who hold a university degree increasingly filling job openings meant for people with lower levels of schooling? It focuses on Portugal, where the higher education system has been expanding at a fast pace and the share of university graduates in...
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