Moscarini, Giuseppe; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Survey over the 1979-2004 period. We clean individual occupational transitions using the algorithm proposed by Moscarini and … Thomsson (2008). We then construct a synthetic panel comprising annual birth cohorts, and we examine the respective roles of …, labor market prospects, and ex post job matching. We provide strong evidence that high unemployment somewhat offsets the …