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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Unemployment volatility in a behavioural search model (2018)
Martin, Chris; Wang, Bingsong;Zitatform
Martin, Chris & Bingsong Wang (2018): Unemployment volatility in a behavioural search model. (Warwick economic research papers 1179), Coventry, 24 S.
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"Recent evidence that the opportunity cost of employment is pro cyclical implies that existing models based around search frictions in the labour market cannot match the large volatilities of unemployment and vacancies observed in the data. In this paper, we incorporate insights from behavioural economics into the search frictions framework. The resultant model can match observed volatilities even if the opportunity cost is strongly pro cyclical. The key mechanism in the model is that the pro-cyclicality of the opportunity cost has a limited impact on the reference wage of workers; this feeds through into a limited volatility of the wage and so to a large unemployment volatility." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labor mismatches: Effects on wages and on job satisfaction in 17 OECD countries (2018)
Mateos-Romero, Lucía; del Mar Salinas-Jiménez, María;Zitatform
Mateos-Romero, Lucía & María del Mar Salinas-Jiménez (2018): Labor mismatches: Effects on wages and on job satisfaction in 17 OECD countries. In: Social indicators research, Jg. 140, H. 1, S. 369-391. DOI:10.1007/s11205-017-1830-y
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"This study analyzes the effects of labor mismatches on wages and on job satisfaction in seventeen OECD countries by distinguishing between educational mismatch and skills mismatch. Using data from PIAAC, the results suggest that whereas educational mismatch shows greater effects on wages, the effects of labor mismatch on job satisfaction are generally better explained by skills mismatches. Both phenomena appear to be relevant for understanding the economic effects of labor mismatch and suggest that educational mismatch is not an accurate proxy for skills mismatch, mainly when the non-monetary effects of labor mismatch are addressed." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Short-time work subsidies in a matching model (2018)
Meier, Volker;Zitatform
Meier, Volker (2018): Short-time work subsidies in a matching model. (CESifo working paper 7281), München, 35 S.
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"We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers' income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work benefits tends to reduce the wage while the impact on unemployment remains ambiguous. We develop a modified Hosios condition characterizing an efficient combination of labor market tightness and short-time benefit loss rate." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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On the job search and business cycles (2018)
Moscarini, Giuseppe; Postel-Vinay, Fabien;Zitatform
Moscarini, Giuseppe & Fabien Postel-Vinay (2018): On the job search and business cycles. (IZA discussion paper 11853), Bonn, 54 S.
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"We propose a highly tractable way of analyzing business cycles in an environment with random job search both off- and and on-the-job (OJS). Ex post heterogeneity in productivity across jobs generates a job ladder. Firms Bertrand-compete for employed workers, as in the Sequential Auctions protocol of Postel-Vinay and Robin (2002). We identify three channels through which OJS amplifies and propagates aggregate shocks: (i) a higher estimated elasticity of the matching function, when recognizing that at least half of all hires are from other employers; (ii) the differential returns to hiring employed and unemployed job applicants, whose proportions naturally vary over the business cycle; (iii) within employment, the slow reallocation of workers through OJS across rungs of the job ladder, generating endogenous, slowly evolving opportunities for further poaching, which feed back on job creation incentives. Endogenous job destruction, due to either aggregate or idiosyncratic shocks, is countercyclical and thus raises the cyclical volatility of unemployment, closer to its empirical value; but it also stimulates job creation in recessions, to take advantage of the fresh batch of unemployed, and tilts the Beveridge curve up. OJS corrects this tendency and restores a vacancy-unemployment trade-off more in line with empirical observations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The mobility of displaced workers: How the local industry mix affects job search (2018)
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Neffke, Frank M. H., Anne Otto & César Hidalgo (2018): The mobility of displaced workers: How the local industry mix affects job search. In: Journal of urban economics, Jg. 108, H. November, S. 124-140., 2018-09-27. DOI:10.1016/j.jue.2018.09.006
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"Are there Marshallian externalities in job search? We study how workers who lose their jobs in establishment closures in Germany cope with their loss of employment. About a fifth of these displaced workers do not return to social-security covered employment within the next three years. Among those who do get re-employed, about two-thirds leave their old industry and one-third move out of their region. However, which of these two types of mobility responses workers will choose depends on the local industry mix in ways that are suggestive of Marshallian benefits to job search. In particular, large concentrations of one's old industry makes it easier to find new jobs: in regions where the pre-displacement industry is large, displaced workers suffer relatively small earnings losses and find new work faster. In contrast, large local industries skill-related to the pre-displacement industry increase earnings losses but also protect against long-term unemployment. Analyzed through the lens of a job-search model, the exact spatial and industrial job-switching patterns reveal that workers take these Marshallian externalities into account when deciding how to allocate search efforts among industries." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))
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Education outcomes and the labor market (2018)
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Obiols-Homs, F. & V. Sánchez-Marcos (2018): Education outcomes and the labor market. In: Labour economics, Jg. 54, H. October, S. 14-28. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.06.001
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"The quality of education appears to be negatively correlated with both the overeducation of workers at the tasks they perform and the unemployment rate across EU-15 countries, and positively correlated with the wage premium associated to tertiary education. We develop a model of the labor market with frictions to quantitatively investigate the impact of the education outcomes on the labor market. We show that both the ability of educated and non educated workers have sizable effects on the incentives of firms regarding the type of vacancies they open and also regarding the incentives of educated workers as of where to search for a job. Therefore education outcomes are relevant to understand the overeducation phenomena observed in the labor market. According to our quantitative analysis had the quality of education observed in Spain been similar to the European average then the overeducation rate would have been between 5 and 10 percentage points lower and the unemployment rate of the two types of workers would be reduced by 40%, but the tertiary education wage premium would be slightly smaller than in the benchmark economy." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))
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Essays on unemployment, job search behavior and policy interventions (2018)
Pohlan, Laura ; Nolte, André; Blömer, Maximilian; Gürtzgen, Nicole ; Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Stichnoth, Holger; Uhlendorff, Arne;Zitatform
Pohlan, Laura (2018): Essays on unemployment, job search behavior and policy interventions. Mannheim, XIV, 235 S.
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"This dissertation explores through which channels unemployment leads to exclusion from society and how policy interventions and technological innovations affect individual job search behavior and are able to bring unemployed persons back into the labor market. All four chapters contained in this dissertation are based on large individual-level data sets from Germany and aim at identifying causal relationships by employing different empirical methods. This thesis starts in the first chapter with an analysis of how job loss impacts different dimensions of social exclusion and shows that unemployment has detrimental economic and social effects. In the second chapter, which is co-authored by Annette Bergemann and Arne Uhlendorff, we study employment effects of participation in job creation schemes in the years after German reunification. We find that participation in job creation programs is beneficial for high skilled women in times of economic instability. In the third chapter, my co-authors Maximilian Blömer, Nicole Gürtzgen, Holger Stichnoth, Gerard van den Berg and I estimate an equilibrium job search model and simulate the introduction of different minimum wage levels. The results indicate that minimum wage effects on unemployment are non-linear and highly dependent on the labor market structure. In the last chapter, which is co-authored by Nicole Gürtzgen, André Nolte and Gerard van den Berg, we find that high-speed internet leads to higher reemployment probabilities with a certain time delay. This effect is particularly pronounced for unemployed males." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Internetgestützte Erfassung offener Stellen: Machbarkeitsstudie im Rahmen eines ESSnet-Projekts zu Big Data (2018)
Rengers, Martina;Zitatform
Rengers, Martina (2018): Internetgestützte Erfassung offener Stellen. Machbarkeitsstudie im Rahmen eines ESSnet-Projekts zu Big Data. In: Wirtschaft und Statistik H. 5, S. 11-33.
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"Können Stellenanzeigen aus dem Internet für die amtliche Statistik nutzbar gemacht werden? Um diese Frage drehte sich ein europäisches ESSnet-Big-Data-Projekt, an dem sich das Statistische Bundesamt seit 2016 beteiligte. Der wichtigste Aspekt bei einer Antwort auf diese Fragestellung ist die Beurteilung der Qualität dieser neuen digitalen Datenquelle. Für die Analyse verwendete das Statistische Bundesamt Daten des Jobportals der Bundesagentur für Arbeit und des Europäischen Zentrums für die Förderung der Berufsbildung. Diese wurden der Stellenerhebung des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung gegenübergestellt. Der Beitrag erläutert das Projekt und gibt die wesentlichen Arbeitsergebnisse für Deutschland wieder." (Autorenreferat, © Statistisches Bundesamt, Wiesbaden)
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How unemployment scarring affects skilled young workers: Evidence from a factorial survey of Swiss recruiters (2018)
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Shi, Lulu P., Christian Imdorf, Robin Samuel & Stefan Sacchi (2018): How unemployment scarring affects skilled young workers. Evidence from a factorial survey of Swiss recruiters. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 52, H. 1, S. 1-15. DOI:10.1186/s12651-018-0239-7
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"We ask how employers contribute to unemployment scarring in the recruitment process in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. By drawing on recruitment theories, we aim to better understand how recruiters assess different patterns of unemployment in a job candidate's CV and how this affects the chances of young applicants being considered for a vacancy. We argue that in contexts with tight school-work linkage and highly standardised Vocational Education and Training systems, the detrimental effect of early unemployment depends on how well the applicant's profile matches the requirements of the advertised position. To test this assumption, we surveyed Swiss recruiters who were seeking to fill positions during the time of data collection. We employed a factorial survey experiment that tested how the (un)employment trajectories in hypothetical young job applicants' CV affected their chances of being considered for a real vacancy. Our results show that unemployment decreases the perceived suitability of an applicant for a specific job, which implies there is a scarring effect of unemployment that increases with the duration of being unemployed. But we also found that these effects are moderated by how well the applicant's profile matches the job's requirements. Overall, the worse the match between applicant's profile and the job profile, the smaller are the scarring effects of unemployment. In sum, our findings contribute to the literature by revealing considerable heterogeneity in the scarring effects of unemployment. Our findings further suggest that the scarring effects of unemployment need to be studied with regard to country-specific institutional settings, the applicants' previous education and employment experiences, and the job characteristics." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Work as foraging: a smartphone study of job search and employment after prison (2018)
Sugie, Naomi F.;Zitatform
Sugie, Naomi F. (2018): Work as foraging: a smartphone study of job search and employment after prison. In: American Journal of Sociology, Jg. 123, H. 5, S. 1453-1491. DOI:10.1086/696209
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"The past several decades have seen a decline in employment rates and labor force participation, particularly among low-skilled, minority men living in poor areas. As low-skill jobs disappear from poor places, how do marginalized job seekers navigate this landscape? Using over 8,000 daily measures of search and work collected from smartphones distributed to 133 men recently released from prison, this article presents the concept of work as foraging, where people work a variety of extremely precarious opportunities that span across job types. Sequence analysis methods describe distinct patterns of search and work that unfold over time, where most people cease their search efforts after the first month and maintain a state of very irregular and varied work. Although there is substantial heterogeneity in patterns, foraging is a common strategy of survival work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality: is there an early-career trade-off? (2018)
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Verhaest, Dieter & Stijn Baert (2018): The effects of workplace learning in higher education on employment and match quality. Is there an early-career trade-off? In: Empirical economics, Jg. 55, H. 3, S. 1229-1270. DOI:10.1007/s00181-017-1308-4
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"We investigate whether the choice for a higher education program with a substantial workplace learning component entails an early-career trade-off between on the one hand higher employment chances and better initial matches (when opting for a program with workplace learning) and on the other hand a lower risk of bad match persistence (when opting for a program without workplace learning). To this end, we rely on longitudinal data of Belgian graduates that track their careers up until the age of 29. We model the program choice, the transition to a good match and the preceding transition to a bad match simultaneously. To account for non-random selection into programs and into bad matches, the Timing of Events method is combined with an exclusion restriction. After accounting for observed and unobserved heterogeneity, we do not find evidence for a trade-off. This result contributes to the debate about the efficiency of vocationalizing tertiary education programs through the implementation of workplace learning." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Active labour market policies in Germany: do regional labour markets benefit? (2018)
Wapler, Rüdiger; Wolf, Katja; Werner, Daniel;Zitatform
Wapler, Rüdiger, Daniel Werner & Katja Wolf (2018): Active labour market policies in Germany. Do regional labour markets benefit? In: Applied Economics, Jg. 50, H. 51, S. 5561-5578., 2018-05-01. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2018.1487526
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"This article examines on a regional level whether active labour market policies (ALMP) improve the matching process. To take the fact of heterogeneous search effectiveness during programme participation into account, we distinguish between current and former programme participants. Our findings based on a regional augmented matching function show that higher search effectiveness due to ALMP is not outweighed by indirect effects on nonparticipants. The total number of matches in a region increases with a higher share of former programme participants among the jobseekers. However, these effects largely differ between programme types." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Digitalisation, hiring and personnel policy: evidence from a representative business survey (2018)
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Warning, Anja & Enzo Weber (2018): Digitalisation, hiring and personnel policy: evidence from a representative business survey. (IAB-Discussion Paper 10/2018), Nürnberg, 43 S.
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"In unserem Papier untersuchen wir, wie sich Beschäftigung und Einstellungsprozesse im Zuge der Digitalisierung verändern. Dafür nutzen wir die IAB-Stellenerhebung, eine repräsentative Arbeitgeberbefragung, die im Jahr 2015 um Sonderfragen zum Stand der digitalen Entwicklung im jeweils befragten Betrieb erweitert wurde. Dies ermöglicht eine unmittelbare Verknüpfung zwischen den Themen Digitalisierung und Beschäftigung/Ein-stellungen. Wir unterscheiden zwischen drei Formen von Digitalisierung und erfassen sowohl die digitale Entwicklung in der Vergangenheit als auch die Erwartungen für die Zukunft. Die Regressionsanalysen zeigen, dass die Digitalisierung bereits spürbare Auswirkungen zeigt. Dies betrifft zum einen die quantitative Entwicklung von Einstellungen, Abgängen aus Beschäftigung, offenen Stellen und abgebrochenen Personalsuchprozessen. Zum anderen beobachten wir qualitative Veränderungen bei den Neueinstellungen, konkret bei den nachgefragten Bildungsabschlüssen, den besonderen erforderlichen Qualifikationen und besonderen Arbeitsbedingungen. Die Dauer der Rekrutierung wird ebenfalls durch den Stand der Digitalisierung beeinflusst, während sich die Löhne, die bei Neueinstellung vereinbart wurden, nicht verändern." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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On the optimal diversification of social networks in frictional labour markets with occupational mismatch (2018)
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Zaharieva, Anna (2018): On the optimal diversification of social networks in frictional labour markets with occupational mismatch. In: Labour economics, Jg. 50, H. March, S. 112-127. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2017.04.002
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"This paper incorporates social networks into a frictional labour market framework. There are two worker types and two occupations, which are subject to correlated fluctuations in output. The equilibrium is characterized by occupational mismatch which is associated with a wage penalty. Every worker has a fixed number of social contacts in the network. The fraction of contacts of the same occupational type defines homophily of the social network, so this paper investigates the optimal level of network homophily. Workers are risk-neutral and take aggregate variables as given, so their optimal individual choice is full homophily. This is different from the social planner's perspective. The planner internalizes external effects of workers' network choices on aggregate variables, so there exists a unique interior value of network homophily maximizing the present value of income. On the one hand, higher homophily is associated with lower occupational mismatch. But on the other hand, higher homophily separates the two groups of workers, prevents exchange of information about open vacancies, and leads to more unemployment, especially in recessions. So it is the trade-off between these two effects and not the desire to reduce income volatility, as in standard portfolio theory, which gives rise to network diversification. Comparative statics shows that optimal network homophily is lower and diversification is stronger with a lower wage penalty from mismatch, lower unemployment benefit and negative correlation in output fluctuations." (Author's abstract, © 2017 Elsevier) ((en))
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Unemployment insurance and the labor market (2018)
Zweimüller, Josef;Zitatform
Zweimüller, Josef (2018): Unemployment insurance and the labor market. In: Labour economics, Jg. 53, H. August, S. 1-14. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.06.003
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"The existing literature assumes that unemployment insurance (UI) affects the labor market through the job finding rate of eligible workers. Recent research has started to broaden the perspective. In this paper, I show evidence for UI effects through three other margins: (i) search externalities; (ii) take-up of other welfare state programs; and (iii) job separations. The evidence suggests that the analysis of optimal UI should take a more comprehensive view of how UI affects the labor market." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))
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Insight into job search self-regulation: effects of employment self-efficacy and perceived progress on job search intensity (2018)
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da Motta Veiga, Serge P. & Daniel B. Turban (2018): Insight into job search self-regulation. Effects of employment self-efficacy and perceived progress on job search intensity. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 108, H. October, S. 57-66. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2018.06.010
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"This study builds on a self-regulation framework to examine the influence of employment self-efficacy and perceived progress on job search intensity. Results from a repeated-measures study with new labor market entrants indicated that job seekers with higher between-person chronic employment self-efficacy put more intensity in their job search compared to those with lower chronic employment self-efficacy. Notably, however, within-person analyses indicated that as employment self-efficacy increased, job search intensity subsequently decreased. These results provide support for social cognitive theory for between-person employment self-efficacy, and for control theory for within-person employment self-efficacy. Furthermore, increased perceived progress was positively related to subsequent job search intensity. The positive relationship of perceived progress with subsequent job search intensity was moderated by chronic employment self-efficacy, such that the relationship was positive only for job seekers with lower chronic employment self-efficacy." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts (2017)
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Addison, John T., Liwen Chen & Orgul D. Ozturk (2017): Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts. (IZA discussion paper 11114), Bonn, 55 S.
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"Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through job search. That is, job mobility enables better matches, and individuals move to better their labor market prospects and settle once they find a satisfactory match. In this paper, we show that there are gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. In particular, we find that females are mismatched more than males. This is true even for females with the best early-career matches. However, the direction of the gender effect differs significantly by education. Only females among the college educated are more mismatched and are more likely to be over-qualified then their male counterparts. These results are seemingly driven by life events, such as child birth. For their part, college-educated males of the younger cohort are worse off in terms of match quality compared to the older cohort, while the new generation of women is doing better on average." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Fachkräftemangel: Reaktionen der Betriebe sowie Auswirkungen auf Investitionsentscheidungen und Wachstum: Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie. Abschlussbericht (2017)
Arnold, Daniel; Hillerich-Sigg, Annette; Nolte, André;Zitatform
Arnold, Daniel, Annette Hillerich-Sigg & André Nolte (2017): Fachkräftemangel: Reaktionen der Betriebe sowie Auswirkungen auf Investitionsentscheidungen und Wachstum. Studie im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Wirtschaft und Energie. Abschlussbericht. Mannheim, 144 S.
Abstract
Diese Studie untersucht anhand repräsentativer Daten für Deutschland, wie Betriebe auf erwartete Fachkräfteengpässe reagieren. Ziel ist es, ein umfassendes Bild der betrieblichen Reaktionen zu zeichnen und die wirtschaftlichen Folgen von Fachkräfteengpässen abzuschätzen. Einerseits können Betriebe betriebliche Personalmaßnahmen ergreifen, die primär darauf ausgerichtet sind, ungenutzte interne Reserven zu mobilisieren oder für bestimmte Personengruppen als Arbeitgeber attraktiver zu werden. Entsprechend untersucht diese Studie das Weiterbildungsangebot, Maßnahmen zur Förderung von älteren Beschäftigten inklusive der Gesundheitsförderung sowie Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Chancengleichheit. Anderseits können Betriebe ihre Rekrutierungsstrategien anpassen. Dies reicht von der Nutzung sozialer Medien für die Mitarbeitergewinnung bis hin zur verstärkten betrieblichen Ausbildung. Betriebe können aber auch höhere Löhne zahlen oder niedrigere Qualifikationsanforderungen stellen, mit dem Ziel die Bewerberzahl zu erhöhen. Um das Rekrutierungsverhalten der Betriebe zu analysieren, werden neben dem Ausbildungsengagement die Struktur der Neueinstellungen sowie deren Entlohnung untersucht. Schließlich wird die wirtschaftliche Situation der Betriebe mit Fachkräfteengpässen in den Blick genommen. Dies umfasst die Beschäftigungsentwicklung und deren Struktur, die Ertragslage, die Produktivität sowie das Investitions- und Innovationsverhalten der Betriebe. (IAB)
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The impact of unemployment insurance on job search: evidence from Google search data (2017)
Baker, Scott R.; Fradkin, Andrey;Zitatform
Baker, Scott R. & Andrey Fradkin (2017): The impact of unemployment insurance on job search: evidence from Google search data. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 99, H. 5, S. 756-768. DOI:10.1162/REST_a_00674
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"Job search is a key choice variable in theories of labor markets but is difficult to measure directly. We develop a job search activity index based on Google search data, the Google Job Search Index (GJSI). We validate the GJSI with both survey- and web-based measures of job search. Unlike those measures, the GJSI is high frequency, geographically precise, and available in real time. We demonstrate the GJSI's utility by using it to study the effects of unemployment insurance policy changes between 2008 and 2014. We find no evidence of an economically meaningful effect of these changes on aggregate search." (Author's abstract, © MIT Press Journals) ((en))
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Local labor market size and qualification mismatch (2017)
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Berlingieri, Francesco (2017): Local labor market size and qualification mismatch. (ZEW discussion paper 17-055), Mannheim, 32 S.
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"This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different field than the one they are trained for. Different empirical strategies are employed to account for the potential sorting of talented workers into more urbanized areas. Results on individuals never moving from the place of childhood and fixed-effects estimates obtaining identification through regional migrants suggest that sorting does not fully explain the existing differences in qualification mismatch across areas. This provides evidence of the existence of agglomeration economies through better matches. However, lower qualification mismatch in larger cities is found to explain only a small part of the urban wage premium." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))