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Meritocracy across Countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
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Key Elasticities in Job Search Theory : International Evidence
Addison, John T.; Centeno, Mário; Portugal, Pedro - 2021
This paper exploits the informational value of search theory, after Lancaster and Chesher (1983), in conjunction with survey data on the unemployed to calculate key reservation wage and duration elasticities for most EU-15 nations
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319037
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Much Ado about the Mortensen-Pissarides Matching Theory
Choi, Hak - 2016
This paper proves that the Mortensen-Pissarides matching theory is nothing but a tautology. They started with an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978974
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Meritocracy across countries
Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024
Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014520525
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Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Engel, Eduardo M. R. A.; Cowan, Kevin - 2011
Microeconomic flexibility is at the core of economic growth in modern market economies because it facilitates the process of creative-destruction, The main reason why this process is not infinitely fast, is the presence of adjustment costs, some of them technological, others institutional. Chief...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014070107
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Effective labor regulation and microeconomic flexibility
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Cowan, Kevin; Engel, Eduardo; … - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002222452
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Effective labor regulation and microeconomic flexibility
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Cowan, Devin N.; Engel, Eduardo; … - 2004
Microeconomic flexibility, by facilitating the process of creative-destruction, is at the core of economic growth in modern market economies. The main reason for why this process is not infinitely fast is the presence of adjustment costs, some of them technological, others institutional. Chief...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607672
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Jobs online
Nakamura, Alice Orcutt; Shaw, Kathryn; Freeman, Richard B. - In: Studies of labor market intermediation, (pp. 27-65). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003910429
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On the heterogeneous effect of trade and unemployment
Carrère, Céline; Fugazza, Marco; Olarreaga, Marcelo; … - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011550929
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Labour Markets, Trade and Technological Progress : A Meta-Study
Terzidis, Nikos - 2019
Technological progress and trade potentially affect wages and employment. Technological progress can make jobs obsolete and trade can increase unemployment in import competing sectors. Empirical evidence suggests that both causes are important to explain recent labour market developments in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866562