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College Admission as a Screening and Sorting Device

Gandil, Mikkel; Leuven, Edwin - 2022

How can colleges find successful applicants? Criteria such as GPA, interviews, essays, and tests provide information about candidates, but which work and why? We shed light on these questions using unique data on the universe of objective and subjective rankings of all college applicants in...

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International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market

Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high … productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across … countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the …

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Boomerang College Kids : Unemployment, Job Mismatch and Coresidence

Albanesi, Stefania; Gihleb, Rania; Zhang, Ning - 2022

Labor market outcomes for young college graduates have deteriorated substantially in the last twenty five years, and more of them are residing with their parents. The unemployment rate at 23-27 years old for the 1996 college graduation cohort was 9%, whereas it rose to 12% for the 2013...

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Temporary Replacement Workers in a Matching Model with Employment at Will

Garibaldi, Pietro; Gomes, Pedro - 2022

set up a matching model with directed search and double-sided heterogeneity. When a workers is temporarily forced out of …

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Labour Market Effects of Digital Matching Platforms : Experimental Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

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Wage Effects of Educational Mismatch According to Workers' Origin : The Role of Demographics and Firm Characteristics

Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022

This paper examines the influence of educational mismatch on wages according to workers' region of birth, taking advantage of our access to rich matched employer-employee data for the Belgian private sector for the period 1999-2010. Using a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch...

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Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

Gürtzgen, Nicole; Lochner, Benjamin; Pohlan, Laura; … - 2021

availability has no major impact on the stability of new matches and their wages. We confirm these findings using vacancy data, by …

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Public-Sector Employment in an Equilibrium Search and Matching Model

Albrecht, James W. - 2017

We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment. We calibrate our model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector wage and employment policy on the unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the...

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A Simple Method to Estimate Large Fixed Effects Models Applied to Wage Determinants and Matching

Mittag, Nikolas - 2017

Models with high dimensional sets of fixed effects are frequently used to examine, among others, linked employer-employee data, student outcomes and migration. Estimating these models is computationally difficult, so simplifying assumptions that are likely to cause bias are often invoked to make...

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Employment Protection Legislation and Mismatch : Evidence from a Reform

Berton, Fabio - 2017

Liberalization of temporary contracts has been a hallmark of labor market reforms during the last decades. More recently, factors like the sovereign debt crisis pushed the most indebted countries to unprecedented reductions of employment protection legislation (EPL) also on open-ended contracts....

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