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Labor market flows and equilibrium search unemployment
Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001
labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching …This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …
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Labor Market Flows and Equilibrium Search Unemployment
Wasmer, Etienne; Garibaldi, Pietro - 2021
labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching …This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320711
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008669978
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Promotion policy, wage and firm size
Zax, Ori - 2012
In contrast to the predictions of conventional economic theory, it is well documented that similar workers receive wages positively correlated with the size of the firm employing them. To explain these findings the author augments the Waldman framework (Job Assignments, Signaling, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009611456
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Are individuals optimizing their wage path? : an analysis using linked employer-employee data
Schneck, Stefan (contributor) - 2008
career. The model, which is designed to introduce optimal between-firm mobility, is based on the search, the matching, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748082
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High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms : Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012
Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104657
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The effects of education-job (mis)match on the earnings of graduates in the Czech Republic
Sedláček, Jan; Zelenka, Martin - In: Národohospodářský obzor : časopis věnovaný … 21 (2021) 2, pp. 105-150
contextual variables: the share of graduates in the population and the unemployment rate of graduates. The paper is based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012598807
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The impact of horizontal job-education mismatches on the earnings of recent university graduates in Russia
Rudakov, Victor; Figueiredo, Hugo; Teixeira, Pedro; … - 2019
This paper analyses the determinants and consequences of horizontal job-education mismatches, an increasingly relevant topic in debates about education and labour markets. This issue reflects the articulation of educational fields and occupations in the labour market. We evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022747
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Employment, unemployment, and underemployment in Africa
Golub, Stephen S.; Hayat, Faraz - 2014
This paper documents and analyses the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labour rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labour-intensive products are vital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230912
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576