matching – Suchprozesse am Arbeitsmarkt
Offene Stellen bei gleichzeitiger Arbeitslosigkeit - was Arbeitsmarkttheorien u. a. mit "unvollkommener Information" begründen, ist für Unternehmen und Arbeitsuchende oft nur schwer nachzuvollziehen: Unternehmen können freie Stellen nicht besetzen, trotzdem finden Arbeitsuchende nur schwer den passenden Job. Wie gestalten sich die Suchprozesse bei Unternehmen und Arbeitsuchenden, welche Konzessionen sind beide Seiten bereit einzugehen, wie lässt sich das "matching" verbessern?
Diese Infoplattform bietet wissenschaftliche Literatur zur theoretischen und empirischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema.
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The macrodynamics of sorting between workers and firms (2017)
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Lise, Jeremy & Jean-Marc Robin (2017): The macrodynamics of sorting between workers and firms. In: The American economic review, Jg. 107, H. 4, S. 1104-1135. DOI:10.1257/aer.20131118
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"We develop an equilibrium model of on-the-job search with ex ante heterogeneous workers and firms, aggregate uncertainty, and vacancy creation. The model produces rich dynamics in which the distributions of unemployed workers, vacancies, and worker-firm matches evolve stochastically over time. We prove that the surplus function, which fully characterizes the match value and the mobility decision of workers, does not depend on these distributions. This result means the model is tractable and can be estimated. We illustrate the quantitative implications of the model by fitting to US aggregate labor market data from 1951-2012. The model has rich implications for the cyclical dynamics of the distribution of skills of the unemployed, the distribution of types of vacancies posted, and sorting between heterogeneous workers and firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Comparing econometric methods to empirically evaluate job-search assistance (2017)
Muller, Paul; Heyma, Arjan; Klaauw, Bas van der;Zitatform
Muller, Paul, Bas van der Klaauw & Arjan Heyma (2017): Comparing econometric methods to empirically evaluate job-search assistance. (IZA discussion paper 10531), Bonn, 56 S.
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"We test whether different empirical methods give different results when evaluating job search assistance programs. Budgetary problems at the Dutch unemployment insurance (UI) administration in March 2010, caused a sharp drop in the availability of these programs. Using administrative data provided by the UI administration, we evaluate the effect of the program using (1) the policy discontinuity as a quasi-experiment, (2) conventional matching methods, and (3) the timing-of-events model. All three methods use the same data to consider the same program in the same setting, and also yield similar results. The program reduces job finding during the first six months after enrollment. At longer durations, the quasi-experimental estimates are not significantly different from zero, while the nonexperimental methods show a small negative effect." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality? (2017)
Nekoei, Arash; Weber, Andrea;Zitatform
Nekoei, Arash & Andrea Weber (2017): Does extending unemployment benefits improve job quality? In: The American economic review, Jg. 107, H. 2, S. 527-561. DOI:10.1257/aer.20150528
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"Contrary to standard search models predictions, past studies have not found a positive effect of unemployment insurance (UI) on reemployment wages. We estimate a positive UI wage effect exploiting an age-based regression discontinuity design in Austria. A search model incorporating duration dependence predicts two countervailing forces: UI induces workers to seek higher-wage jobs, but reduces wages by lengthening unemployment. Matching-function heterogeneity plausibly generates a negative relationship between the UI unemployment-duration and wage effects, which holds empirically in our sample and across studies, reconciling disparate wage-effect estimates. Empirically, UI raises wages by improving reemployment firm quality and attenuating wage drops." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The impact of educational mismatches on wages: the influence of measurement error and unobserved heterogeneity (2017)
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Sellami, Sana, Dieter Verhaest, Walter Nonneman & Walter Van Trier (2017): The impact of educational mismatches on wages. The influence of measurement error and unobserved heterogeneity. In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Jg. 17, H. 1, S. 1-20. DOI:10.1515/bejeap-2016-0055
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"We investigate the differential impact of alternative combinations of horizontal and vertical educational mismatches on wages. By using panel data for Belgian graduates, we consider the role of unobserved worker heterogeneity. Random measurement error in both types of mismatches is accounted for by adopting instrumental variable techniques. We consistently find that overeducated individuals without field of study mismatch earn less than adequately educated workers with a similar educational background. However, for individuals who are working outside their field of study, such a wage penalty is not always observed once accounting for unobserved heterogeneity and random measurement error. In some cases, field of study mismatch even seems to be financially beneficial to the worker. These findings contribute to our understanding regarding the extent to which educational mismatches are truly problematic. The results call for policies that focus primarily on combatting vertical mismatches." (Author's abstract, © De Gruyter) ((en))
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Want, need, fit: the cultural logics of job-matching assistance (2017)
Smith, Sandra Susan; Young, Kara Alexis;Zitatform
Smith, Sandra Susan & Kara Alexis Young (2017): Want, need, fit. The cultural logics of job-matching assistance. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 44, H. 2, S. 171-209. DOI:10.1177/0730888416676513
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"Drawing from a unique dataset based on 146 in-depth, semistructured interviews with a nonrandom sample of ethnoracially and class diverse workers at one large public sector employer, the authors link job contacts' patterns of assistance to three distinct cultural logics of job-matching assistance -- defensive individualism, particularism, and matchmaking -- which differed along three dimensions: (a) the primary criteria upon which help was contingent, (b) the perceived risk faced, and (c) the screening practices contacts used. These findings contribute to a small but growing body of research highlighting the cultural logics that inform where, how much, and to whom job information and influence flows." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Skill demands and mismatch in U.S. manufacturing (2017)
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Weaver, Andrew & Paul Osterman (2017): Skill demands and mismatch in U.S. manufacturing. In: ILR review, Jg. 70, H. 2, S. 275-307. DOI:10.1177/0019793916660067
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"Recent economic events have sparked debates over the degree of structural mismatch in the U.S. economy. One of the most frequent claims is that workers lack the skills that employers demand. The existing literature, however, analyzes this potential mismatch at a high level of aggregation with abstract indices and noisy proxies that obscure the underlying mechanisms. The authors address these issues by presenting and analyzing results from a survey of U.S. manufacturing establishments. The survey is the first, to their knowledge, to directly measure concrete employer skill demands and hiring experiences in a nationally representative survey at the industry level. The findings indicate that demand for higher-level skills is generally modest, and that three-quarters of manufacturing establishments do not show signs of hiring difficulties. Among the remainder, demands for higher-level math and reading skills are significant predictors of long-term vacancies, but demands for computer skills and other critical-thinking/problem-solving skills are not. Of particular interest, high-tech plants do not experience greater levels of hiring challenges. When the authors examine the potential mechanisms that could contribute to hiring difficulties, they find that neither external regional supply conditions nor internal firm practices are predictive of hiring problems. Rather, the data show that establishments that are members of clusters or that demand highly specialized skills have the greatest probability of incurring long-term vacancies. The authors interpret these results as a sign that it is important to think about factors that complicate the interaction of supply and demand -- such as disaggregation and communication/coordination failures -- rather than simply focusing on inadequate labor supply." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employer screening costs, recruiting strategies, and labor market outcomes: an equilibrium analysis of on-campus recruiting (2017)
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Weinstein, Russell (2017): Employer screening costs, recruiting strategies, and labor market outcomes. An equilibrium analysis of on-campus recruiting. (IZA discussion paper 10912), Bonn, 80 S.
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"This paper analyzes labor market matching in the presence of search and informational frictions, by studying employer recruiting on college campuses. Based on employer and university interviews, I develop a model describing how firms choose target campuses given relevant frictions. The model predicts that with screening costs, the decision to recruit and the wage are driven by the selectivity of surrounding universities, in addition to the university's selectivity. The prediction has strong support using data from 39 finance and consulting firms and the Baccalaureate and Beyond. Structural estimation of an equilibrium model directly quantifies the impact of reducing screening costs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Downward flexibility: Who is willing to take an inferior job? (2017)
Wilson, Shaun; Hadler, Markus;Zitatform
Wilson, Shaun & Markus Hadler (2017): Downward flexibility: Who is willing to take an inferior job? In: European journal of industrial relations, Jg. 23, H. 2, S. 187-204. DOI:10.1177/0959680116659816
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"Most workers look forward to better jobs across their careers, but in an age of rising inequality and insecurity at work, some are willing to accept an inferior job in order to avoid joblessness. We use the Work Orientations III survey from the 2005 International Social Survey Programme to explore such 'downward flexibility' and develop several regression models specified for 19 OECD countries to test hypotheses and explore macro- and individual-level variations. Workers in liberal 'labour market regimes' are more tolerant of downward adaptations, in line with evidence that these regimes produce strongly institutionalized norms of flexibility. Tolerance of a worse job is also higher among those with weak labour market positions (low-income respondents, women and young people). Further macro-level analysis suggests that the 'model' country with the most downwardly flexible workers would be rich and unequal, with weak unions and low levels of social protection and industrial rights." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do informal referrals lead to better matches?: evidence from a firm's employee referral system (2016)
Brown, Meta; Topa, Giorgio; Setren, Elizabeth;Zitatform
Brown, Meta, Elizabeth Setren & Giorgio Topa (2016): Do informal referrals lead to better matches? Evidence from a firm's employee referral system. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 34, H. 1/Pt. 1, S. 161-209.
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"Using a new firm-level data set that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover for a single US corporation and test various predictions of theoretical models of labor market referrals. We find that referred candidates are more likely to be hired; experience an initial wage advantage, which dissipates over time; and have longer tenure in the firm. Further, the variances of the referred and nonreferred wage distributions converge over time. The observed referral effects appear to be stronger at lower skill levels. The data also permit analysis of the role of referrer-referee pair characteristics." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Payroll taxes, social insurance, and business cycles (2016)
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Burda, Michael C. & Mark Weder (2016): Payroll taxes, social insurance, and business cycles. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, Jg. 14, H. 2, S. 438-467. DOI:10.1111/jeea.12145
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"Payroll taxes represent a major distortionary influence of governments on labor markets. This paper examines the role of time-varying payroll taxes and the social safety net for cyclical fluctuations in a nonmonetary economy with labor market frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance budget induces countercyclical payroll taxation, renders gross wages more rigid over the cycle and strengthens the model's endogenous propagation mechanism. For conventional calibrations, the model generates a negatively sloped Beveridge curve and countercyclical unemployment as well as substantial volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Who works for whom?: worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets (2016)
Dinlersoz, Emin M.; Janicki, Hubert P.; Hyatt, Henry R.;Zitatform
Dinlersoz, Emin M., Henry R. Hyatt & Hubert P. Janicki (2016): Who works for whom? Worker sorting in a model of entrepreneurship with heterogeneous labor markets. (IZA discussion paper 9693), Bonn, 47 S.
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"Young and small firms are typically matched with younger and nonemployed individuals, and they provide these workers with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind these facts, a dynamic model of entrepreneurship is introduced, where individuals can choose not to work, become entrepreneurs, or work in one of the two sectors: corporate or entrepreneurial. The differences in production technology, financial constraints, and labor market frictions lead to sector-specific wages and worker sorting across the two sectors. Individuals with lower assets tend to accept lower-paying jobs in the entrepreneurial sector, an implication that finds support in the data. The effect on the entrepreneurial sector of changes in key parameters is also studied to explore some channels that may have contributed to the decline of entrepreneurship in the United States." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Reputation and trust on online labour markets: the reputation economy of Elance (2016)
Gandini, Alessandro; Pais, Ivana; Beraldo, Davide;Zitatform
Gandini, Alessandro, Ivana Pais & Davide Beraldo (2016): Reputation and trust on online labour markets. The reputation economy of Elance. In: Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, Jg. 10, H. 1, S. 27-43. DOI:10.13169/workorgalaboglob.10.1.0027
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"This article examines profile data about 9,593 freelancers from 121 countries active in the Design and Multimedia section of Elance, a major online labour market existing up until 2015. Using statistical analysis, the article evidences that the earnings a contractor obtains from working through Elance positively correlates with higher reputation scores and suggests that the conception of trust among actors operating on an online labour market resembles that which characterises e-commerce platforms like eBay or Amazon, where trust relations among 'strangers' are guaranteed by an algorithmic-based third party that translates feedbacks and rankings into a numerical reputation proxy." (Author's abstract, © Pluto Journals Ltd.) ((en))
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Search costs and efficiency: do unemployed workers search enough? (2016)
Gautier, Pieter; Wolthoff, Ronald; Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose L.;Zitatform
Gautier, Pieter, Jose L. Moraga-Gonzalez & Ronald Wolthoff (2016): Search costs and efficiency. Do unemployed workers search enough? In: European Economic Review, Jg. 84, H. May, S. 123-139. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.04.001
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"Many labor market policies affect the marginal benefits and costs of job search. The impact and desirability of such policies depend on the distribution of search costs. In this paper, we provide an equilibrium framework for identifying the distribution of search costs and we apply it to the Dutch labor market. In our model, the wage distribution, job search intensities, and firm entry are simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. Given the distribution of search intensities (which we directly observe), we calibrate the search cost distribution and the flow value of non-market time; these values are then used to derive the socially optimal firm entry rates and distribution of job search intensities. From a social point of view, some unemployed workers search too little due to a hold-up problem, while other unemployed workers search too much due to coordination frictions and rent-seeking behavior. Our results indicate that jointly increasing unemployment benefits and the sanctions for unemployed workers who do not search at all can be welfare-improving." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Aggregate recruiting intensity (2016)
Gavazza, Alessandro; Violante, Giovanni L.; Mongey, Simon;Zitatform
Gavazza, Alessandro, Simon Mongey & Giovanni L. Violante (2016): Aggregate recruiting intensity. (CEP discussion paper 1449), London, 59 S.
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"We develop a model of firm dynamics with random search in the labor market where hiring firms exert recruiting effort by spending resources to fill vacancies faster. Consistent with micro evidence, in the model fast-growing firms invest more in recruiting activities and achieve higher job-filling rates. In equilibrium, individual decisions of hiring firms aggregate into an index of economy-wide recruiting intensity. We use the model to study how aggregate shocks transmit to recruiting intensity, and whether this channel can account for the dynamics of aggregate matching efficiency around the Great Recession. Productivity and financial shocks lead to sizable pro-cyclical fluctuations in matching efficiency through recruiting effort. Quantitatively, the main mechanism is that firms attain their employment targets by adjusting their recruiting effort as labor market tightness varies. Shifts in sectoral composition can have a sizable impact on aggregate recruiting intensity. Fluctuations in new-firm entry, instead, have a negligible effect despite their contribution to aggregate job and vacancy creations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Who is your perfect match?: Educational norms, educational mismatch and firm profitability (2016)
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Kampelmann, Stephan, Benoît Mahy, François Rycx & Guillaume Vermeylen (2016): Who is your perfect match? Educational norms, educational mismatch and firm profitability. (IZA discussion paper 10399), Bonn, 35 S.
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"We provide first evidence regarding the direct effect of educational norms and educational mismatch on the bottom line of firms across work environments. To do so, we use rich Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, rely on the methodological approach pioneered by Hellerstein et al. (1999), and estimate dynamic panel data models at the firm level. Our findings show an 'inverted L' profitability profile: undereducation is associated with lower profits, whereas higher levels of normal and overeducation are correlated with positive economic rents of roughly the same magnitude. The size of these effects is amplified in firms experiencing economic uncertainty or operating in high-tech sectors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Multi-region job search with moving costs (2016)
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Kawata, Keisuke, Kentaro Nakajima & Yasuhiro Sato (2016): Multi-region job search with moving costs. In: Regional science and urban economics, Jg. 61, H. November, S. 114-129. DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2016.10.002
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"We develop a competitive search model involving multiple regions, geographically mobile workers, and moving costs. Equilibrium mobility patterns are analyzed and characterized, and the results indicate that shocks to a particular region, such as a productivity shock, can propagate to other regions through workers' mobility. Moreover, equilibrium mobility patterns are inefficient due to the existence of moving costs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Who gets hired? The importance of finding an open slot (2016)
Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher T.;Zitatform
Lazear, Edward P., Kathryn L. Shaw & Christopher T. Stanton (2016): Who gets hired? The importance of finding an open slot. (NBER working paper 22202), Cambrige, Mass., 46 S. DOI:10.3386/w22202
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"A model of hiring into posted job slots suggests hiring is based on comparative advantage: being hired depends not only on one's own skill but also on the skills of other applicants. The model has numerous implications. First, bumping of applicants occurs when one job-seeker is slotted into a lower paying job by another applicant who is more skilled. Second, less able workers are more likely to be unemployed because they are bumped. Third, vacancies are higher for harder to fill skilled jobs. Fourth, some workers are over-qualified for their jobs whereas others are under-qualified. These implications are borne out using four different data sets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effect of the potential duration of unemployment benefits on unemployment exits to work and match quality in France (2016)
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Le Barbanchon, Thomas (2016): The effect of the potential duration of unemployment benefits on unemployment exits to work and match quality in France. In: Labour economics, Jg. 42, H. October, S. 16-29. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2016.06.003
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"Recent empirical literature finds very limited average effects of generous unemployment benefits on match quality. This study examines those effects in a setting where they could be large. We focus on workers with low employability and evaluate the impact of a large increase in potential benefit duration from 7 to 15 months. Our regression discontinuity design does not elicit significant short-term or medium-term effects on either employment duration or wages, whereas we find large positive effects on unemployment and non-employment duration." (Author's abstract, © 2017 Elsevier) ((en))
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Essays on the economics of the labor market (2016)
Lichter, Andreas;Zitatform
Lichter, Andreas (2016): Essays on the economics of the labor market. Köln, 217 S.
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"The present dissertation aims at contributing to the understanding of central labor market mechanisms by analyzing open questions on the determinants of firms' labor demand, unemployed individuals' job search behavior and the state's role in shaping peoples' trust and, thereby, affecting labor market outcomes and economic performance. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Mismatch unemployment and the geography of job search (2016)
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Marinescu, Ioana & Roland Rathelot (2016): Mismatch unemployment and the geography of job search. (NBER working paper 22672), Cambrige, Mass., 69 S. DOI:10.3386/w22672
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"Could we significantly reduce U.S. unemployment by helping job seekers move closer to jobs? Using data from the leading employment board CareerBuilder.com, we show that, indeed, workers dislike applying to distant jobs: job seekers are 35% less likely to apply to a job 10 miles away from their ZIP code of residence. However, because job seekers are close enough to vacancies on average, this distaste for distance is fairly inconsequential: our search and matching model predicts that relocating job seekers to minimize unemployment would decrease unemployment by only 5.3%. Geographic mismatch is thus a minor driver of aggregate unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))