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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market

Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in a particular field, work in another field at their...

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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

ICT sector and a reallocation of engineers across firms. We also find evidence of increasing assortative matching, in the …

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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

ICT sector and a reallocation of engineers across firms. We also find evidence of increasing assortative matching, in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530520

High-wage workers and high-productivity firms : a regional view on matching in Germany

Ehrl, Philipp - 2014

This paper analyzes assortative matching between employers and employees and its interrelations with the employment … matching. The correlation between both quality measures is positive. Wage gains amount up to 4% when both quality levels are … equal. In a fairly general matching model, this shape of the wage curve arises due to complementarities of qualities in the …

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Technology adoption, turbulence and the dynamics of unemployment

Duernecker, Georg - 2011

The divergence of unemployment rates between the United States and Europe coincided with a substantial acceleration in capital-embodied technical change in the late 1970s. Evidence suggests that European economies have lagged behind the United States in the adoption and usage of new...

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Mismatch of talent : evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility

Fredriksson, Peter; Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2015

We examine the direct impact of idiosyncratic match quality on entry wages and job mobility using unique data on worker talents matched to job-indicators and individual wages. Tenured workers are clustered in jobs with high job-specific returns to their types of talents. We therefore measure...

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