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Skill mismatch and the costs of job displacement

Neffke, Frank; Nedelkoska, Ljubica; Wiederhold, Simon - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024 - This version: January 14, 2024

Establishment closures have lasting negative consequences for the workers they displace from their jobs. We study how these consequences vary with the amount of skill mismatch that workers experience after job displacement. Developing new measures of occupational skill redundancy and skill...

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Mapping the (mis)match of university degrees in the graduate labor market

Salas-Velasco, Manuel - In: Journal for labour market research 55 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

This paper contributes to the scarce literature on the topic of horizontal education-job mismatch in the labor market for graduates of universities. Field-of-study mismatch or horizontal mismatch occurs when university graduates, trained in a particular field, work in another field at their...

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It Skills, Occupation Specificity and Job Separations

Eggenberger, Christian; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2022

This paper examines how workers' earnings change after involuntary job separations depending on the workers' acquired … separations, these different types of IT skills can have opposing effects, either reducing or amplifying earnings losses of … occupations: Having more generic IT skills is positively correlated with earnings after involuntary separations, whereas more …

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No Education, No Good Jobs? Evidence on the Relationship between Education and Labor Market Segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2021

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....

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The Frisch Elasticity in Labor Markets with High Job Turnover

Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita - 2012

We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We...

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Longer careers : a barrier to hiring and coworker advancement?

Ferrari, Irene; Kabátek, Jan; Morris, Todd - 2023

Government policies are encouraging older workers to delay retirement, which may curb younger workers' career advancement. We study a Dutch reform that raised the retirement age by 13 months and nearly tripled employment at age 66. Using monthly linked employer-employee data, we show that...

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Furlough Schemes in the COVID-19 Crisis : An Initial Analysis of Furloughed Employees Resuming Work

Izquierdo, Mario; Puente, Sergio; Regil, Ana - 2021

This article uses microdata from the Spanish Labour Force Survey (EPA) to conduct an initial analysis of the use of furlough schemes as a temporary employment adjustment mechanism in this crisis. The information drawn from the survey shows there has been an intensive use of furlough schemes...

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Hiring and retaining skilled employees in SMEs : problems in human resource practices and links with organizational success

Bilan, Yuriy; Mishchuk, Halyna; Roshchyk, Iryna; Joshi, … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 21 (2020) 2, pp. 780-791

The ability to attract and retain the talents is an important factor in the competitiveness of countries, as it is confirmed in our study. At the level of small and medium-sized enterprises, hiring and retaining skilled workers is one of the most difficult tasks of HR management, especially in...

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The third worker : assessing the trade-off between employees and contractors

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

Firms make labour demand decisions not only between permanent and non-permanent employees but also increasingly more between employees and contractors. Indeed, this third work format can be attractive, also when employment protection law is restrictive. This paper examines empirically this...

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Flexibility vs. Rigidity: Does Spain have the worst of both Worlds?

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper we study the structure of labor market flows in Spain and compare them with France and the US. We characterize a number of empirical regularities and stylized facts. One striking result is that the job finding rate is slightly higher than in France, while the job loss rate is much...

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