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Do the higher educated unemployed crowd out the lower educated ones in a competition for jobs?
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2002
levels. We estimate the structural parameters of a matching function generalised to incorporate crowding out effects. We use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412393
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228177
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Labor market dynamics with sorting
Schulz, Bastian - 2023
I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366741
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Firms' employment dynamics and the state of the labor market
Stadin, Karolina - 2015
According to search and matching theory, a greater availability of unemployed workers should make it easier for a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373159
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Job placement agencies in an artificial labor market
Wozniak, Marcin - 2016
In this paper, an agent-based search and matching (ABSAM) model of a local labor market with heterogeneous agents and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557520
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Did the Hartz Reforms Speed-Up Job Creation? A Macro-Evaluation Using Empirical Matching Functions
Fahr, Rene - 2006
, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778974
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Business cycle asymmetries and the labor market
Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian - 2022
This paper shows that a search and matching model with idiosyncratic training cost shocks can explain the asymmetric … movement of the job-finding rate over the business cycle and the decline of matching efficiency in recessions. Large negative … tightness. Our model explains a large fraction of the matching efficiency decline during the Great Recession and generates state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185150
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Gender and education gaps in employment : new evidence for the EU
Gökten, Meryem; Heimberger, Philipp; Arsenev, Aleksandr; … - 2024
This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps existing in Eastern and Southern Europe than in Nordic and...
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The Aggregate Effects of the Hartz Reforms in Germany
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2013
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function — pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390684
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The aggregate effects of the Hartz reforms in Germany
Hertweck, Matthias S.; Sigrist, Oliver - 2012 - This Version: December 21, 2012
This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687896