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Different Skill Levels and Firing Costs in a Matching Model with Uncertainty ? An Extension of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)
Kohns, Stephan - 2021
A matching model in the line of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) is augmented with a low-skill labor market and firing costs. It is shown that even with flexible wages unemployment is higher among the low-skilled and increases with skill-biased technological change. The two main reasons are that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321329
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Burke, Mary A.; Sasser, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2020 - This version: October 2019
Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224850
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The pandemic push : digital technologies and workforce adjustments
Gathmann, Christina; Kagerl, Christian; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2023
Based on a unique survey and administrative employer-employee data, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic acted as a push factor for the diffusion of digital technologies in Germany. About two in three firms invested in digital technologies, in particular in hardware and software to enable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250022
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The Reallocation of Workers and Jobs in Russian Industry
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2003
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a survey of 530 firms selected through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080203
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Chapter 41 Gross job flows
Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part B, (pp. 2711-2805). 1999
Market economies experience high rates of job creation and job destruction in almost every time period and sector. Each … cross-sectional, cross-country and cyclical variation in job flows. We also relate theories of heterogeneity, growth and … fluctuations to the large magnitude of job flows and to systematic patterns of cross-sectional and time variation. Other major …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024705
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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations
Sasser, Alicia; Burke, Mary A.; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2023
U.S. online job postings between 2007 and 2019. We find that the degree of persistence in educational upskilling lasted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419499
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Different skill levels and firing costs in a matching model with uncertainty : an extension of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)
Kohns, Stephan - 2000
A matching model in the line of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) is augmented with a lowskill labor market and firing costs. It is shown that even with flexible wages unemployment is higher among the low-skilled and increases with skill-biased technological change. The two main reasons are that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001455092
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The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David - 2002
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013268837
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Different skill levels and firing costs in a matching model with uncertainty : an extension of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994)
Kohns, Stephan - 2000
A matching model in the line of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) is augmented with a lowskill labor market and firing costs. It is shown that even with flexible wages unemployment is higher among the low-skilled and increases with skill-biased technological change. The two main reasons are that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318592
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Who gets to stay? : how mass layoffs reshape firms' skills structure
Margolis, David N.; Montana, Jaime - 2024
This paper contests the traditional view of layoffs as solely reactive to negative economic conditions. Using survey and administrative French data, we provide evidence on how firms strategically utilize mass layoffs to restructure their workforce composition. First, we investigate if firms use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084179