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Wages, training and job turnover in a search-matching model
Rosholm, Michael; Svarer, Michael - 2000
In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen … framework and the search-matching framework (eg. Pissarides, 1990). Second, it improves the correspondence between the …
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Identifying sorting in practice
Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco; Monzón, … - 2015
We propose a novel methodology to uncover the sorting pattern in the labor market. Our methodology exploits the additional information contained in profits, which complements the information from wages and transitions typically used in previous work. We identify the strength of sorting solely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347151
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Mismatch unemployment : evidence from Germany, 2000 - 2010
Bauer, Anja - 2013
This paper provides detailed empirical evidence on the scope of mismatch in Germany in the past decade, using a comprehensive administrative data set that allows for disaggregation at the levels of industry, occupation and region. The findings suggest that regional mismatch did not play an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788092
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Better workers move to better firms : a simple test to identify sorting
Bartolucci, Cristian; Devicienti, Francesco - 2013
strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive … (negative) assortative matching, good workers are more (less) likely to move to better firms than bad workers. Assuming that … matching is pervasive in the labor market. This result is in contrast with what we find from correlating the worker and firm …
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Accounting for qualification in mismatch unemployment
Bauer, Anja - 2023
This paper shows the evolution of mismatch unemployment over the period from 2007 to 2022 in Germany. A substantial part of mismatch unemployment results from a misallocation on the qualification level rather than on the occupational level. Taking the qualification level into account, an upward...
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Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality
Shephard, Andrew - 2019
This paper examines how policies, aimed at increasing the supply of education in the economy, affect the matching …
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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Endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching unemployment
Stadler, Manfred; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2001
This paper presents a general-equilibrium model of endogenous skilled-biased technological change and matching …
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Educational mismatch and firm productivity : do skills, technology and uncertainty matter?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Vermeylen, Guillaume - 2015
The authors provide first evidence on whether the direct relationship between educational mismatch and firm productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they find the existence of a significant, positive (negative)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488878
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Disaggregate matching functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of … the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is …
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