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Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion

Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2012

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

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Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion

Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2012

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General … dispersion ; search model ; heterogeneity …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530289

Exploring the causes of frictional wage dispersion

Tjaden, Volker; Wellschmied, Felix - 2011

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. The model … the job is the most important driver behind this result. Meanwhile, firm heterogeneity never accounts for more than 20% of … overall wage inequality within an age cohort. -- Frictional wage dispersion ; Search model ; Heterogeneity …

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Exploring the Causes of Frictional Wage Dispersion

Tjaden, Volker - 2012

duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111209

Firm productivity, wages, and sorting

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2020

firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by sorting theory, we infer firm productivity from estimating firm …

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Schooling Investment, Mismatch, and Wage Inequality

Shephard, Andrew - 2019

This paper examines how policies, aimed at increasing the supply of education in the economy, affect the matching between workers and firms, and the wages of various skill groups. We build an equilibrium model where workers endogenously invest in education, while firms direct their technology...

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Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes

Hensvik, Lena; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2013

The paper studies how social job finding networks affect firms' selection of employees and the setting of entry wages. Our point of departure is the Montgomery (1991) model of employee referrals which suggests that it is optimal for firms to hire new workers through referrals from their most...

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Labor market sorting in Germany : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, April 2016

Lochner, Benjamin; Schulz, Bastian - 2016

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models (Shimer and Smith, 2000; Eeckhout and Kircher, 2011;...

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Skill demand and wages : evidence from linked vacancy data

Ziegler, Lennart - 2021

This study provides new evidence on skill requirements in the labor market and shows to what extent skill demand is associated with wages and vacancy duration. Using more than 1.5 million job postings administered by the Austrian public employment service, I identify the most common skill...

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Job search channels, neighborhood effects and wages inequality in developing countries : the Colombian case

García, Gustavo; Nicodemo, Catia - 2013

This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The geographic closeness is associated to social interactions. Individuals who are in physical and social...

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