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Guess who's there : employment protection legislation and the degree of substitutability between labour contracts

Sonedda, Daniela - 2020

Employment protection legislation may affect the degree of substitutability among different types of labour contracts by changing the individuals sorting into jobs and firms screening in and out jobs. Using administrative data, we document this substitutability in the context of a labour market...

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Human Capital Mismatches along the Career Path

Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Neffke, Frank - 2010

Human capital is transferable across occupations, but only to a limited extent because of differences in occupational skill-profiles. Higher skill overlap between occupations renders less of individuals' human capital useless in occupational switches. Current occupational distance measures...

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Spatial mobility and wage profiles : the role of general and location specific human capital matching

Morkutė, Gintarė - 2016

productivity levels of local and nonlocal employees. I employ the framework of Simon and Warner [Journal of Labor Economics, 10 …

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Age and the U-shaped cost of job loss

Bartal, Mehdi; Becard, Yvan; Bertheau, Antoine - 2024

Job displacement causes large and persistent earnings losses. We document that these losses exhibit a U shape over the life cycle: young and old workers experience greater drops than mid-career workers. We develop a simple search model with human capital accumulation and deterioration that...

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Does Firm-Specific Human Capital Decrease or Increase Employee Mobility?

Guenther, Agnes; Barney, Jay B. - 2023

An ongoing debate in the field of strategic human capital is whether high levels of firm- specific human capital decrease or increase employee mobility. Some argue that firm-specific human capital limits employment options, thus reducing mobility. Others argue that firm- specific human capital,...

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Will Skill Mismatches Persist? An Investigation into the Effect of Skill Shortages on Wages in the UK

Morris, David - 2018

This article explores whether a relationship exists between the skill shortages that a market faces, and the wages in the market, using both pseudo panel and individual wage equations over the period 2004-2014. Both sets of results suggest that workers in markets with higher levels of skill...

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Skill shortages, labor reallocation, and growth

Hetze, Pascal - 2006

which may have limiting effects on the reallocation of labor and technology implementation in manufacturing. The … reallocation of labor becomes necessary as growth leads to continuous job creation and job destruction. The ratio of job … destruction to job creation identifies three regimes, two of which are associated with unemployment either due to restricted labor …

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United But (Un-)Equal : Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Cremer, Helmuth - 2012

symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …

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United But (Un)Equal : Human Capital, Probability of Divorce and the Marriage Contract

Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre; Roeder, Kerstin - 2021

symmetric allocation will become more attractive as the probability of divorce increases, if risk aversion is high and/or labor …

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Occupational Self-Selection in a Labor Market With Moral Hazard

Demiralp, Berna - 2007

This paper presents a model of occupational choice in a labor market characterized by moral hazard. The model … demonstrates that in such a labor market, workers' occupational choices are determined by not only their comparative advantage but …-selection diminish as the labor market becomes increasingly characterized by moral hazard …

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