We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …

Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding … rate and the unemployment rate? In the model, fluctuations are prominently driven by productivity shocks which are commonly … matching ; business cycle …

Endogenous separation matching models have the shortcoming that they are barely able to replicate the Beveridge curve … builds upon the sectoral shock literature and combines its insights with the standard endogenous separation matching approach …

its link to labor productivity. This is the first application of this question to New Zealand data. In this paper we … alternative models of educational mismatch. As the New Zealand labor market exhibits assignment-type matching, we argue that the …