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Unraveling Results from Comparable Demand and Supply : An Experimental Investigation

Niederle, Muriel; Roth, Alvin E.; Ünver, M. Utku - 2009

, matching can occur (inefficiently) early only when there is comparable demand and supply: a surplus of applicants, but a …

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Shifting the Beveridge Curve : What Affects Labor Market Matching?

Bova, Elva - 2016

This paper explores conditions and policies that could affect the matching between labor demand and supply. We identify … findings also show that the matching process is more difficult the higher the share of employees with intermediate levels of … matching include active labor market policies, such as incentives for start-up and job sharing programs. Passive labor market …

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The effect of minimum wages on labour market flows : evidence from Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Penninger, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2015

Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics at the establishment level, i.e. turnover and churning flows, as well as accessions and separations and their...

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Ban on female migrant workers : skills-differentiated evidence from Sri Lanka

Weeraratne, Bilesha - 2021

consistent with the objectives of the policy and existing impact evaluation studies, while the increase in higher-skilled workers …

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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market

Luechinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2006

individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two … considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the fraction of very satisfied workers from 53.8 to 58.8 percent …

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Information frictions and labor market outcomes

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015

We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...

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Strategic wage bargaining, labor market volatility, and persistence

Hertweck, Matthias Sebastian - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 13 (2013) 1, pp. 123-149

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Why is old workers' labor market more volatile? : unemployment fluctuations over the life-cycle

Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014

Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...

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Using Internet data to analyse the labour market : a methodological enquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavý, Miroslav; Thum, … - 2014

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper …

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Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences : the specificity of human capital investments

Wasmer, Etienne - 2002

This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....

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