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Efficiency in a matching model with heterogeneous agents : too many good or bad jobs?

Blázquez, Maite; Jansen, Marcel - 2003

This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs … production technologies. Finally, in an extension we derive a tax scheme that restores efficiency and we show how workers …

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Qualification-mismatch and long-term unemployment in a growth-matching model

Birk, Angela - 2001

of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers … Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit und der Wachstumsrate des technischen Fortschritts wird in einem Wachstums-Matching-Modell mit heterogenen …

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A simple theory of optimal redistributive taxation with equilibrium unemployment

Hungerbühler, Mathias; Lehmann, Etienne; Parmentier, Alexis - 2010

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model …

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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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