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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...

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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill

Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...

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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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Meritocracy across countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual …

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Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872260

Wages and employment : the role of occupational skills

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Koomen, Miriam; Krapf, Matthias - 2018

estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers differ in interpersonal, cognitive and manual …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022569

Redundancy payments, incomplete labor contracts, unemployment and welfare

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999

, using a dynamic search and matching model a la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994), we show that it may be not any more the case …

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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 - 2022

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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Redundancy payments, incomplete labor contracts, unemployment and welfare

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999

, using a dynamic search and matching model a la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994), we show that it may be not any more the case …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011318608