growth and average productivity growth. Model simulations allow us study the role of dynamic interactions among agents … processes governing the labor market, such as job search by individuals, and matching and bargaining among firms and potential …

skewness. -- productivity ; heterogeneity ; UI policy ; endogenous assortative matching ; search … of random matching. Workers react to UI policy through job acceptance decisions; firms react to UI policy through wage … posting. There is endogenous assortative matching as a result of the fact that UI policy induces a time profile for …

This paper generalizes and extends the labor market search and matching model of Berliant, Reed, and Wang (2006). In … this model, the density of cities is determined endogenously, but the matching process becomes more efficient as density … increases. As a result, workers become more selective in their matches, and this raises average productivity (the intensive …

firm-CEO match quality and boards of directors are making CEO retention decisions as they learn about CEO productivity in …

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …

This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …

output are driven by dispersion in regional or occupational productivity, tightness, and matching efficiency. We find …Mismatch in the labour market has been implicated as a driver of the UK's productivity ‘puzzle', the phenomenon … describing how the growth rate and level of UK productivity have fallen behind their respective pre-Great Financial Crisis trends …

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …