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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019
According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....
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The retention effect of training : portability, visibility, and credibility
Dietz, Daniel; Zwick, Thomas - 2016
This paper analyses the effect of training participation on employees’ retention in the training company. It for the first time empirically combines the human capital and the monopsony theory by jointly controlling for the portability, visibility, and credibility of training. Based on an...
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Job search, human capital and wage inequality
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2012
This paper constructs and quantitatively assesses an equilibrium search model with on-the- job search and general human capital accumulation. In the model workers differ in their innate abilities and firms in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers'...
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Do informal referrals lead to better matches? : evidence from a firm's employee referral system
Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - 2014
hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U …
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Supervision and effort in an intertemporal efficiency wage model : the role of the Solow condition
Faria, João Ricardo - 1998
The Solow condition is examined in an intertemporal model that blends the shirking and the turnover models of … efficiency wages with managerial supervision. It is shown that the Solow condition does not hold when shirking and turnover costs … are considered. The Solow condition can be a possible outcome when managerial productivity offsets shirking and turnover …
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Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2008 - rev.
According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product market conditions...
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Learning through coworker referrals
Glitz, Albrecht; Vejlin, Rune Majlund - 2019
In this paper, we study the role of coworker referrals for labor market outcomes. Using comprehensive Danish administrative data covering the period 1980 to 2005, we first document a strong tendency of workers to follow their former coworkers into the same establishments and provide evidence...
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So many rocket scientists, so few marketing clerks : estimating the effects of economic reform on occupational mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro (contributor);  … - 2008
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793275
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Biases in the measurement of labour market dynamics
Bachmann, Ronald; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009
This paper analyses worker transitions on the German labour market derived from different data sources. These include the two German micro data sets which provide high-frequency observations on workers' employment and unemployment histories: the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and the IAB...
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Sectoral transformation, turbulence, and labour market dynamics in Germany
Bachmann, Ronald (contributor);  … - 2007
increase in gross flows, but also from an increase in the net transition "yield" at any given gross worker turnover. In growing … reduced their net employment primarily via lower accessions from nonparticipation. While gross turnover is cyclically …
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