This paper examines the impact of increasing the relative cost of fixed-term contracts on labor demand as well as the demand for standard measures of human capital and specific skill requirements. We evaluate a 2018 Italian labor law reform that raised the cost of fixed- term contracts while...

In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market besides the well-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries drawn from SHARE to assess the labor market...

This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public employment service, I identify the most common skill...

The software industry is unique in terms of its “platform economics” where many firms build their products based on dominant software platforms. Hiring workers from firms with high platform knowledge may thus create externalities for the recipient software firms. Yet, while prior studies...

This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide descriptive evidence of both the relative importance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills in this part of the labor market and the interplay between skills and hiring channels in...

This paper demonstrates that downturns can affect job match quality by influencing job tasks. Cognitive and manual task shares and education-based over qualification measures are generated from Canada's Labour Force Survey and the O*NET database. Manual tasks are shown to be counter cyclical...

Immigrants receiving advanced educational degrees in the U.S. play an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy. Visa regulation concerning their employment by U.S. corporations, however, is a subset of the overall H-1B visa policy that has remained largely unchanged over the last 25 years...

What do the current digitally skilled graduates look for in a job? This report undertakes an interview study with a set of newly graduating students as well as with their prospective employers in the telecommunications industry to identify the challenges and drivers perceived by both sides in...

This paper analyzes how the costs of hiring skilled workers from the external labor market affect a firm's supply of training. Using administrative survey data with detailed information on hiring and training costs for Swiss firms, we find evidence for substantial and increasing marginal hiring...