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Beyond Cobb-Douglas: flexibly estimating matching functions with unobserved matching efficiency
Lange, Fabian; Papageorgiou, Theodore - 2020
the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206513
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Sozialhilfe, Lohnabstand, Leistungsanreize und Mindestlohnarbeitslosigkeit
Boss, Alfred - 2001
einer geringen Qualifikation behindert und zum Anstieg der Arbeitslosigkeit beigetragen. … impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495535
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064016
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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 education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224850
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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy
Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Grethe, Harald - 2020
production boundary, and the conditions for a transfer of labor across the boundary. Economic theory indicates that the labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232857
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011647679
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Elasticities of labor supply and labor force participation flows
Cairó, Isabel; Fujita, Shigeru; Morales-Jiménez, Camilo - 2018
market states, the unemployment rate, and the labor force participation rate, while using values of elasticities consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011971293
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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
Although labor market "mismatch" often refers to an imbalances in supply and demand across occupations, mismatch within occupations can arise if skill requirements are changing over time, potentially reducing aggregate matching efficiency within the labor market. To test this, we examine changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014419499
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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2006
macroeconomic factors - including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system - as well as … individual-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset … for workers who move from unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783021
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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2021
macroeconomic factors - including aggregate and local unemployment rates, generosity of the unemployment compensation system and … capital, length of unemployment spell and alternative income sources. The longitudinal aspect of the dataset (the German Socio … wage offers for workers who make the transition from unemployment to employment. The findings have important policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320159