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important is worker reallocation for aggregate productivity growth? To study this question, I develop a general equilibrium …
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Using high-quality administrative data, I analyze workers' opportunity costs of reallocation across occupations by … changes after reallocation and find that workers who change occupations through unemployment face wage losses. Interpreted … would only reallocate when they can recoup the costs of reallocation through wage gains. To shed some light on the question …
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In the data, entrepreneurship contributes to the micro and macro-level patterns of gross labor market flows and the selection into that occupation is highly responsive to labor market policy changes. Using an occupational choice model of employment, unemployment, and entrepreneurship, we show...
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This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...
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We analyze the recruitment strategies and the survival of newly created establishments that are affiliated with pre-established _rms. For the new establishments, the existence of ports of entry as well as the importance of internal and external recruitment is assessed. Being affiliated with a...
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Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of workers to firms. To measure sorting, we propose a new method which disentangles the respective contributions of worker and firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by...
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Using linked employer-employee data from Finland, we examine the mobility of workers between establishments as a source of productivity-affecting knowledge spillovers. We find evidence that hiring workers from more productive establishments leads to higher productivity in the following year. For...
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labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously … countercyclical unemployment, and is simultaneously consistent with procyclical reallocation, countercyclical separations and a …, the model is also consistent with different employment and reallocation outcomes as workers gain experience in the labor …
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France, the change in LMI affects new job opportunities in manual jobs: the reallocation of routine workers towards manual …
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We ask whether sectoral shocks and the subsequent labor reallocation are responsible for unemployment within selected … European economies. Our measure of sectoral labor reallocation is adjusted for aggregate influences and the remaining variation … impact of sectoral reallocation on unemployment that goes beyond usual business cycle patterns. In Italy, there is weaker yet …
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