Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply …, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …

-skill unemployment dynamics. I capture the across-skill search externalities and spillover effects that arise when low- and high …My thesis explores the following question: how workers of different skill are allocated across jobs and unemployment … high unemployment, as increased congestion in the labor market hinders workers from finding a suitable match. I focus on …

In this dissertation, I investigate how government policies influence an individual's decision to search for and accept … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment …

-term consequences of doing so. The second essay, “The Role of Reservation Wages in Youth Unemployment in South Africa: A Structural … Approach” (with James Levinsohn), estimates a structural job search model with survey data on the reservation wage. We find … survey data to estimate the full distribution of search costs in the sample. These estimates confirm the model’s predictions …

fisheries. The extent to which human capital enhancement may offset capacity reductions, however, has not been previously … decommissioning in the fishery. The study highlights an apparent oversight in fisheries policy analysis. Considerable attention is … greater impact on stocks than technological adoption in established fisheries. …

the one for men. This is consistent with a marriage model where the search horizon for women is shorter than the one for …

deutschen Kapitalmarkt in Bezug auf eine bilanzielle Erfassung von Humankapital statt. In Kapitel 5 werden die freiwillig … publizierten Informationen über Humankapital am deutschen Kapitalmarkt in zwei Wertrelevanzstudien untersucht. Als Datenquelle wird … Humankapital. In der ersten Wertrelevanzstudie wird der entwickelte Index nun als endogene Variable auf die exogene Variable …

the jack-ofall-trades model by Lazear (2005) and the second the O-ring theory introduced by Kremer (1993) and applied to … new firms by Fabel (2004a,b) and Fabel and Weber (2005). Besides contributing to the search of stylised facts about the … predictions of the O-ring theory are supported by the data. The O-ring theory predicts that individuals sort between firms …