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Occupational Match Quality and Gender Over Two Cohorts

Addison, John T. - 2019

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....

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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2021

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a...

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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard : Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Gregory, Terry - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...

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How Wage Announcements Affect Job Search - A Field Experiment

Belot, Michèle - 2019

We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show...

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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos - 2020

Recruitment behavior is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey …-administrative data, we explore the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies. Faster hiring goes along with higher search … directed search model in which firms use different recruitment margins in response to productivity shocks. The calibrated model …

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Occupation, Growth, Skill Prices, and Wage Inequality

Böhm, Michael - 2019

This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...

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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts : Theory and Evidence

Cao, Shutao - 2014

permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market characterized by search and matching frictions, firms find optimal …

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Mismatch Unemployment in Austria : The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve...

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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers

Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022

We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...

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Fixed-term and permanent employment contracts: Theory and evidence

Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - 2010

permanent employees enjoy labor protection. In a labor market characterized by search and matching frictions, firms find optimal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270875