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Occupational choice and matching in the labor market

Mak, Eric; Siow, Aloysius - 2017

Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model generates occupation earnings distributions which are right skewed, have firm fixed effects, and large changes in aggregate earnings inequality without significant changes in within...

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Wage employment, unemployment and self-employment across countries

Poschke, Markus - 2019

Poor countries have low rates of wage employment and high rates of self-employment. This paper shows that they also … have high rates of unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment is particularly high where the … unemployment-wage employment ratio is high. I interpret high unemployment-employment ratios as evidence of labor market frictions …

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual skills, while firms require and value different...

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Is formal employment sector hereditary? : determinants of formal-informal sector choice for Mexican male workers

García-Andrés, Adelaido; Aguayo Téllez, Ernesto; … - In: Estudios económicos 34 (2019) 67, pp. 91-121

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Wage employment, unemployment and self-employment across countries

Poschke, Markus - 2023

Poor countries have low wage employment and high self-employment. This paper shows that they also have high … unemployment relative to wage employment, and that self-employment increases with this ratio. To understand the sources of these … matches, and calibrate it to match all transition rates between wage employment, unemployment and self-employment as well as …

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Occupational Choice and Dynamic Incentives

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo; Sjöström, Tomas - 2001

We study an overlapping generations version of the principal-agent problem, where incentive contracts are determined in general equilibrium. All individuals are workers when young, but have a choice between becoming entrepreneurs or remaining workers when old. Imperfections in the credit market...

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