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Kubis, Alexander & Martina Rebien (2019): Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit in Zeiten von Fachkräfteengpässen. In: Wirtschaftspolitische Blätter, Jg. 66, H. 1, S. 39-57., 2019-01-30.

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"Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt befindet sich im 13. Jahr des Aufschwungs. Betriebe berichten vermehrt über Fachkräfteengpässe und die Arbeitsmarktchancen haben sich in vielen Regionen und Berufen gebessert. Der Arbeitsmarkt hat sich jedoch nicht für alle und nicht überall gedreht. Während einige Regionen von einer hohen Arbeitslosigkeit gekennzeichnet sind, fehlen in anderen bereits Fachkräfte. Eine zu geringe Mobilität macht einen Ausgleich bisher unwahrscheinlich. Menschen mit passender Qualifikation finden leicht einen Job, fehlt diese, ist der Wettbewerb um freie Stellen jedoch sehr hoch. Das schmälert vor allem die Chancen Langzeitarbeitsloser. Zwar sind Betriebe zunehmend bereit ihnen eine Chance zu geben, jedoch zeigt sich, dass neben einem teils obsoleten Fachwissen die erwarteten soft skills eine Hürde für den Erfolg darstellen. Maßnahmen, die an diesen Punkten ansetzten, könnten nicht nur den qualifikatorischen Mismatch verringern, sondern auch die regionale Mobilität fördern." (Autorenreferat, © MANZ Verlag, Wien)

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L'Horty, Yannick & Florent Sari (2019): The role of spatial and skill mismatches. Explaining long-term unemployment in Paris. In: Regional Studies. Journal of the Regional Studies Association, Jg. 53, H. 2, S. 283-296. DOI:10.1080/00343404.2018.1462480

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"In the Paris region, one can observe simultaneously the coexistence of a large and dynamic job pool with long-lasting periods of unemployment. This paradox reveals the importance of skill and spatial mismatch mechanisms, which are often used to explain disparities in local labour market outcomes. This paper uses several spatial models to measure the effects of these two mechanisms on unemployment durations in the Paris region. The results show that both problems affect municipalities close to the centre of Paris, while unemployment situations in municipalities on the fringes of the region are mainly affected by a lack of local employment dynamism." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lalé, Etienne (2019): Search and multiple jobholding. (IZA discussion paper 12294), Bonn, 52 S.

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"A search-theoretic model of the labor market with idiosyncratic fluctuations in hours worked, search both off- and on-the-job, and multiple jobholding is developed. Taking on a second job entails a commitment to hold onto the primary employer, enabling the worker to use the primary job as her outside option to bargain with the secondary employer. The model performs well at explaining multiple jobholding inflows and outflows, and it is informative for understanding the secular decline in multiple jobholding. While some worry that this decline heralds a less-flexible labor market, the model reveals that it has contributed to reducing search frictions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Limnios, Christopher (2019): Housing market and labor market search. In: The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, Jg. 19, H. 1, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1515/bejm-2018-0049

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"Current models fail to concurrently account for several important empirical regularities in the housing and labor markets. I augment the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) search and matching model of the labor market with a housing market characterized by search and matching frictions, integrating both markets in a coherent macroeconomic model. The model provides a framework to explain how shocks and frictions which originate in the labor market spill over into the housing market and vise versa. The model accounts for procyclical, serially correlated real estate values, rental rates and expected real estate appreciation. Further, it accounts for increases in wages, housing costs and willingness to commute as a result of increases in geographic amenities. The model is also consistent with the empirical relationship between vacancy rates in the housing market and separation rates in the labor market. Simulations demonstrate that certain land-use policies can mitigate permanent shocks to labor productivity and the level of geographic amenities." (Author's abstract, © De Gruyter) ((en))

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Mamertino, Mariano & Tara M. Sinclair (2019): Migration and online job search: A gravity model approach. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 181, H. August, S. 51-53. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2019.05.005

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"In this study we introduce a new potential data source on migration intentions in the form of online job seekers actively searching for a job in a country other than their current location. We characterize job seeker interest across national borders by measuring user behavior on a major job search website. We show the job search data are strongly positively related to available OECD migration data and also find that in a gravity model both the determinants and the relative importance of the determinants for job search are similar to those in the literature for realized migration." (Author's abstract, © 2019 Elsevier) ((en))

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Morkuté, Gintaré (2019): Location-specific knowledge in spatial job search and its outcomes. An empirical investigation. In: Papers in regional science, Jg. 98, H. 3, S. 1373-1395. DOI:10.1111/pirs.12418

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"This paper investigates how working location influences jobseekers' subsequent spatial job search. Further, it is assessed to what extent mobility between working regions is associated with wage growth. The results show that the working region functions as a prominent geographical anchor around which the new job search is focused. The jobseekers that do find a job far away from their old working region receive a small wage premium, but this premium disappears if selectivity is taken into account. It is concluded that employees demonstrate substantial stickiness to their working locations, and that this is motivated by asymmetry in search costs. No evidence was found that mobility between working regions in itself affects wages." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Pan, Wei-fong (2019): Building sectoral job search indices for the United States. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 180, H. July, S. 89-93. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2019.04.019

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"This study investigates job search activity in the United States by constructing a set of sectoral job search activity indices based on Internet search volumes. The indices are positively associated with countercyclical labour market measures, including unemployment and layoff rates, but are negatively associated with procyclical measures. Overall, our evidence supports previous empirical findings - job search intensity is countercyclical - which contradicts the theoretical model's prediction." (Author's abstract, © 2019 Elsevier) ((en))

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Rose, Damaris & Haya Stier (2019): The skill divide in post-unemployment job quality. In: Social science research, Jg. 82, H. August, S. 105-112. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.04.003

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Sansale, Rebecca, Stephen B. DeLoach & Mark Kurt (2019): Unemployment duration and the personalities of young adults workers. In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Jg. 79, H. April, S. 1-11. DOI:10.1016/j.socec.2019.01.002

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"As in many countries, young adult workers in the United States have experienced tremendous employment volatility in recent years. In this paper, we examine the role personality plays in determining the duration of unemployment among young adults in the United States between 2008 and 2015. Evidence from estimation of a Competing Risks Model shows that when faced with unemployment, conscientious individuals are significantly more likely to find employment. Individuals scoring higher in neuroticism are more likely to leave the workforce and less likely to go back to school, while more agreeable individuals are more likely to go back to school. Because personality remains malleable for young adults, these results have implications for the literature related to job-search behavior as well as for educational and job-training programs." (Author's abstract, © 2019 Elsevier) ((en))

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Suárez, Patricia, Matías Mayor, Begoña Cueto & María-Henar Salas-Olmedo (2019): The spatial structure of the labour market across public jobcentres. Does their accessibility matter? In: Papers in regional science, Jg. 98, H. 3, S. 1359-1372. DOI:10.1111/pirs.12414

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"The objective is to analyse how one's place of residence affects the probability of finding a job and to measure the definition of the public jobcentre catchment area, which contributes to improving labour outcomes in the most deprived areas. We propose a multilevel model to estimate the probability of finding a job controlling for individual characteristics and discerning the effect of the place of residence and the contribution of public employment centres. We use an administrative register of jobseekers (70,379) grouped by 384 postal codes and 24 jobcentres. The econometric results confirm the hypothesis that there is a strong residence effect that is not sufficiently mitigated by public employment services." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Theys, Tobias, Nick Deschacht, Stef Adriaenssens & Dieter Verhaest (2019): The evolution of inter-regional spatial mismatch in the USA. The role of skills and spatial structure. In: Urban studies, Jg. 56, H. 13, S. 2654-2669. DOI:10.1177/0042098018803017

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"The literature on spatial mismatch often focuses on a mismatch within cities or local labour markets. This paper looks at the spatial mismatch between local labour markets. Using US data, we study the evolution of inter-regional mismatch between 1980 and 2010 and how this evolution varies across skill levels. Since we expect the spatial structure of supply and demand in the labour market to play a central role at this geographical level, we develop an extension of the spatial mismatch index, as the standard version does not take this spatial structure into account. Our results indicate that spatial mismatch has been increasing over the past decades, an increase that is largely attributable to spatial structure effects. The inter-regional spatial mismatch mainly affects low-skilled jobs and workers: our findings suggest that the degree of the spatial mismatch for low-skilled, relative to high-skilled workers, increased from a ratio of two in 1980 to almost four in 2010." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Wen, Le & Sholeh A. Maani (2019): Job mismatches and career mobility. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 51, H. 10, S. 1010-1024. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2018.1524569

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"Does over-education assist or hinder occupational advancement? Career mobility theory hypothesizes that over-education leads to a higher level of occupational advancement and wage growth over time, with mixed international empirical evidence. This paper re-tests career mobility theory directly using a rich Australian longitudinal data set. A dynamic random effects probit model is employed to examine upward occupational mobility, considering two-digit occupational rank advancement and wage growth over three-year intervals. The 'Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia' data across nine years are employed, and a Mundlak correction model is adopted to adjust for unobserved heterogeneity effects and potential endogeneity, both of which are important to over-education analysis. Contrary to career theory, the results point to job mismatch as an economic concern rather than a passing phase, regardless of whether or not workers are skill-matched. Results further show the importance of adjusting for endogeneity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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de Larquier, Guillemette & Géraldine Rieucau (2019): Valuation and matching: A conventionalist explanation of labor markets by firms' recruitment channels. In: Historical social research, Jg. 44, H. 1, S. 52-72. DOI:10.12759/hsr.44.2019.1.52-72

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"In line with the conventionalist works on recruitment and intermediation in the labor market, this article argues that, in order to shape uncertainty about the quality of matching, recruitment channels used by firms rely on 'investments in forms.' The first investment corresponds to the definition of the boundaries of the labor market (i.e., the outline of the labor supply from the firm's point of view); the second one corresponds to the format of information (i.e., the 'standard' or 'personalized' language used by channels to convey information). The firm's resort to a given channel is explained by its internal organization and its valuation of what is a good applicant (depending on its 'labor quality convention'). By crossing-over the two types of investment in forms, we distinguish four matching dynamics. Each type of dynamics is illustrated by examples coming from a qualitative survey of recruitment practices in four French service oriented sectors." (Author's abstract, © GESIS) ((en))

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"Over recent decades, online job portals have become important recruitment and job search tools. Beyond assisting skills matching, the job vacancies these portals gather can also be used to analyse labour market trends in real time, generating evidence that can inform education and training policies and help ensure that people's skills meet the needs of rapidly changing workplaces. These insights can complement skills intelligence based on information collected via traditional methods, such as Cedefop's Europe-wide skills forecasts, the European skills and jobs survey, and the European skills index. This booklet outlines the main features of online job vacancies and the key characteristics of Cedefop's new system to collect and analyse them. It accompanies the first release of results based on the collection and analysis of online job vacancies in seven EU Member States." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Adams, Camilla, Jonathan Meer & CarlyWill Sloan (2018): The minimum wage and search effort. (NBER working paper 25128), Cambrige, Mass., 36 S. DOI:10.3386/w25128

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"Labor market search-and-matching models posit supply-side responses to minimum wage increases that may lead to improved matches and lessen or even reverse negative employment effects. Yet there is no empirical evidence on this crucial assumption. Using event study analysis of recent minimum wage increases, we find that increases to minimum wage do not increase the likelihood of searching, but do lead to large yet very transitory spikes in search effort by individuals already looking for work. The results are not driven by changes in the composition of searchers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Andersson, Josefine (2018): Early counselling of displaced workers. Effects of collectively funded job search assistance. (Working papers / Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy 2018,22), Uppsala, 56 S.

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"Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as early as during the period of notice. Compared to traditional labor market policies, the assistance provided is earlier and more responsive to the needs of the individual worker. In this study, I investigate the effects of the individual counseling and job search assistance provided through the Employment Security Agreement for Swedish blue-collar workers on job finding and subsequent job quality. The empirical strategy is based on the rules of eligibility in a regression discontinuity framework. I estimate the effect for workers with short tenure, who are dismissed through mass-layoffs. My results do not suggest that the program has an effect on the probability of becoming unemployed, the duration of unemployment, or income. However, the results indicate that the program has a positive effect on the duration of the next job." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Arni, Patrick & Amelie Schiprowski (2018): Job search requirements, effort provision and labor market outcomes. (CESifo working paper 7200), München, 53 S.

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"How effective are effort targets? This paper provides novel evidence on the effects of job search requirements on effort provision and labor market outcomes. Based on large-scale register data, we estimate the returns to required job search effort, instrumenting individual requirements with caseworker stringency. Identification is ensured by the conditional random assignment of job seekers to caseworkers. We find that the duration of un- and non-employment both decrease by 3% if the requirement increases by one monthly application. When instrumenting actual applications with caseworker stringency, an additionally provided monthly application decreases the length of spells by 4%. In line with theory, we further find that the effect of required effort decreases in the individual's voluntary effort. Finally, the requirement level causes small negative effects on job stability, reducing the duration of re-employment spells by 0.3% per required application. We find a zero effect on re-employment wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Battisti, Michele, Yvonne Giesing & Nadzeya Laurentsyeva (2018): Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? evidence from a field experiment. (CESifo working paper 7292), München, 31 S.

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"We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received jobmatching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing uncertainty about their residence status. These individuals might not search effectively, lack access to alternative support programmes, and may be disregarded by employers due to perceived higher hiring costs." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Belot, Michele, Philipp Kircher & Paul Muller (2018): How wage announcements affect job search. A field experiment. (IZA discussion paper 11814), Bonn, 75 S.

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"We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show interest in the low wage vacancy even when they were exposed to both. Both findings are core predictions of theories of directed/competitive search where workers trade off the wage with the perceived competition for the job. A calibrated model with multiple applications and on-the-job search induces magnitudes broadly in line with the empirical findings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bova, Elva, João Tovar Jalles & Christina Kolerus (2018): Shifting the Beveridge curve. What affects labor market matching? In: International Labour Review, Jg. 157, H. 2, S. 267-306. DOI:10.1111/ilr.12046

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"This paper explores conditions and policies that could affect the matching between labor demand and supply. We identify shifts in the Beveridge curves for 12 OECD countries between 2000Q1 and 2013Q4 using three complementary methodologies and analyze the short-run determinants of these shifts by means of limited-dependent variable models. We find that labor force growth as well as employment protection legislation reduce the likelihood of an outward shift in the Beveridge curve,. Our findings also show that the matching process is more difficult the higher the share of employees with intermediate levels of education in the labor force and when long-term unemployment is more pronounced. Policies which could facilitate labor market matching include active labor market policies, such as incentives for start-up and job sharing programs. Passive labor market policies, such as unemployment benefits, as well as labor taxation render matching significantly more difficult." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))