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Increasing Income Inequality : Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading

Frederiksen, Anders - 2010

productivity. Further, when our model is subjected to skill-upgrading and changes in employee bargaining power, it is capable of … employeesﾒ relative productivity, i.e., skill-biased technological change, are unlikely to have caused the increase in income …

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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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Offshoring and Unemployment : The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility

Mitra, Devashish - 2009

In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the sector with the lower (or equal) vacancy...

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Labor Market Search, Informality, and On-the-Job Human Capital Accumulation

Bobba, Matteo - 2019

We develop a search and matching model where firms and workers produce output that depends both on match …-specific productivity and on worker-specific human capital. The human capital is accumulated while working but depreciates while searching … dynamics of human capital accumulation magnifies the negative impact on productivity of the labor market institutions that give …

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Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems

Barlevy, Gadi - 2006

This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is …

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Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

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

This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...

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