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The Informational Role of the Business Cycle

Dellas, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Economic decisions such as occupational and entrepreneurial choices may violate true comparative advantage when economic agents are uncertain about which activity best matches their talents. If relative performance varies over the business cycle (for instance, if downturns affect...

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

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Active Labour Market Policies in Poland: Human Capital Enhancement, Stigmatization or Benefit Churning?

Kluve, Jochen; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

. We sketch the theoretical framework of matching estimators as a substitute for randomization in labor market programs …-in-differences matching estimator of treatment effects. Treatment and control groups are matched over individual observable characteristics …

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The Beveridge Curve

Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching … from it, generated by matching. …

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Job Upgrading, Job Creation and Job Destruction

Menezes, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper proposes and develops a dynamic matching model à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994, 1999a, 1999b) where …

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New Developments in Models of Search in the Labour Market

Mortensen, Dale T; Pissarides, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper surveys recent work in equilibrium models of labor markets characterized by search and recruitment frictions and by the need to reallocate workers across productive activities. The duration of unemployment and jobs and wage determination are treated as endogenous outcomes of job...

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Cities, Matching and the Productivity Gains of Agglomeration

Andersson, Fredrik; Burgess, Simon; Lane, Julia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

the role of one of the main contenders: the matching of workers and jobs. Using individual level data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with more assortative matching between workers and firms … our data. Putting together the production and matching relationships, we show that production complementarity and …

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Intermediation in Innovation

Hoppe, Heidrun C.; Ozdenoren, Emre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The paper offers a new theoretical framework to examine the role of intermediaries between creators and users of new inventions. We find that uncertainty about the profitability of investing in new inventions generates a basis for intermediation. An intermediary may provide an opportunity to...

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Heterogeneous Workers and International Trade

Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

productivity and efficiency via its impact on sorting and matching in the labor market. Some of the most recent contributions also …

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Workplace health promotion and labour market performance of employees

Huber, Martin; Lechner, Michael; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

regions, we apply a flexible propensity score matching approach that controls for selection on observables as well as on time …

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