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The Speed of Employer Learning and Job Market Signaling Revisited
Habermalz, Steffen - 2021
learning indicates a low value of job market signaling. The claim is first discussed intuitively in light of Spence's original … value of job market signaling …
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Overeducation, skill mismatches, and labor market outcomes for college graduates : overskilling or overskilling plus overeducation are more likely than overeducation alone to harm...
Sloane, Peter J. - 2014
cross-sectional data, providing information at just one point in time. Drawing meaningful conclusions about mismatch, its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420242
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Labour market screening with intermediaries
Schweinzer, Paul - 2006
the efficient matching of workers to firms. This mechanism can be thought of as operated by a recruitment agency, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010366528
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Empirical Labor Search: A Survey
Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003
This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273738
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Empirical Labor Search : A Survey
Eckstein, Zvi; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021
This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor market transitions and durations, wages, and individual characteristics. The starting points of the literature are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319635
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Strategic hiring behavior in empirical matching functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching framework, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402624
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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene; Sunde, Uwe - 2021
This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320904
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Labor market pooling and human capital investment decisions
Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - 2008
Dass Arbeitsmarkt-Pooling einer der Vorteile von Ballungsräumen ist, ist zwar empirisch belegt, theoretisch jedoch nur gering fundiert. Der Beitrag stellt ein Modell der Humankapitalbildung in einem imperfekten kompetitiven gepoolten Arbeitsmarkt mit heterogenen Arbeitskräften und Unternehmen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003873486
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Labor Market Pooling and Human Capital Investment Decisions
Amend, Elke; Herbst, Patrick - 2009
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203664
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Incentives for Schools, Educational Signals and Labour Market Outcomes
Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2006
Central exams have been discussed as an incentive to improve educational outcomes. In our paper we study the impact of central exams on labor market outcomes. We explain the quality choice of schools under central and non-central exams and model the resulting students' schooling decisions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733013