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easier than a job seeker is employed. The results show that the matching efficiency is remarkable lower in dense areas than …This paper studies spatial aspects in local labour markets in Finland from the perspective of a matching approach. The … matching function is extended to account for spatial spill-overs between the local labour markets. The role of population …
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relationship, including turnover, learning, matching, and hold up. It also considers labor market pooling from the perspective of …
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We study a matching model with heterogenous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along a … equilibrium and study how matching occurs depending on the frictions in the market if income is exogenous. If the level of search … decide on their effort levels before they enter the matching market. …
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This paper addresses the large degree of frictional wage dispersion in US data. The standard job matching model without …-the-job search in a stochastic job matching model. Our key result is that the inclusion of variable on-the-job search increases the …
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-parametric propensity score matching approach, we find that the unexplained gender pay gap for young workers is substantially lower in large …
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The aim of this paper is to develop a spatial model that explicitly incorporates the different types of knowledge spillovers taking place in cities and to show how they affect the migration decision of individuals and the size of cities. We use a static general equilibrium framework with two...
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Are there negative health effects from losing the job? We analyze the causal effect of job displacement on diabetes incidence and prevalence. Type 2 diabetes is an illness that is directly affected by lifestyle factors and psychosocial stress, and with severe side-effects deteriorating the...
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propensity score matching estimators. To explain potential differences in effects between the groups, we suggest and apply a … decomposition method based on the matching procedure that allows identification of differences due to observable characteristics and …
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This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...
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Population diversity arising from international migration does not only affect the labor market, but also its training ground - the classroom. While the economics literature studies the large and persistent achievement gap between native and foreign origin students, surprisingly little is known...
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