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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Labor market heterogeneity and the aggregate matching function (2015)
Barnichon, Regis; Figura, Andrew;Zitatform
Barnichon, Regis & Andrew Figura (2015): Labor market heterogeneity and the aggregate matching function. In: American Economic Journal. Macroeconomics, Jg. 7, H. 4, S. 222-249. DOI:10.1257/mac.20140116
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"We estimate an aggregate matching function and find that the regression residual, which captures movements in matching efficiency, displays procyclical fluctuations and a dramatic decline after 2007. Using a matching function framework that explicitly takes into account worker heterogeneity as well as market segmentation, we show that matching efficiency movements can be the result of variations in the degree of heterogeneity in the labor market. Matching efficiency declines substantially when, as in the Great Recession, the average characteristics of the unemployed deteriorate substantially, or when dispersion in labor market conditions - the extent to which some labor markets fare worse than others - increases markedly." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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A theory of dual job search and sex-based occupational clustering (2015)
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Benson, Alan (2015): A theory of dual job search and sex-based occupational clustering. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 54, H. 3, S. 367-400. DOI:10.1111/irel.12095
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"This paper theorizes and provides evidence for the segregation of men into clustered occupations and women into dispersed occupations in advance of marriage and in anticipation of future colocation problems. Using the Decennial Census, and controlling for occupational characteristics, I find evidence of this general pattern of segregation, and also find that the minority of the highly educated men and women who depart from this equilibrium experience delayed marriage, higher divorce, and lower earnings. Results are consistent with the theory that marriage and mobility expectations foment a self-fulfilling pattern of occupational segregation with individual departures deterred by earnings and marriage penalties." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The recruitment paradox: network recruitment, structural position, and East German market transition (2015)
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Benton, Richard A., Steve McDonald, Anna Manzoni & David F. Warner (2015): The recruitment paradox. Network recruitment, structural position, and East German market transition. In: Social forces, Jg. 93, H. 3, S. 905-932. DOI:10.1093/sf/sou100
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"Economic institutions structure links between labor-market informality and social stratification. The present study explores how periods of institutional change and post-socialist market transition alter network-based job finding, in particular informal recruitment. We highlight how market transitions affect both the prevalence and distribution of network-based recruitment channels: open-market environments reduce informal recruitment's prevalence but increase its association with high wages. We test these propositions using the case of the former East Germany's market transition and a comparison with West Germany's more stable institutional environment. Following transition, workers in lower tiers increasingly turned toward formal intermediaries, active employee search, and socially 'disembedded' matches. Meanwhile, employers actively recruited workers into higher-wage positions. Implications for market transition theory and post-socialist stratification are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Relational contracts in competitive labour markets (2015)
Board, Simon; Meyer-ter-vehn, Moritz;Zitatform
Board, Simon & Moritz Meyer-ter-vehn (2015): Relational contracts in competitive labour markets. In: The Review of Economic Studies, Jg. 82, H. 2, S. 490-534. DOI:10.1093/restud/rdu036
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"We analyze a large, anonymous labour market in which firms motivate their workers via relational contracts. The market is frictionless and features on-the-job search, in that all acceptable vacancies are immediately filled and the employed compete with the unemployed for vacancies. While firms and workers are ex ante identical, the unique equilibrium exhibits a continuous distribution of contracts in which high wage firms have higher retention rates, more motivated workers and higher productivity. The model thus generates dispersion in wages, productivity and human resource strategies, and gives rise to endogenous job ladders. An exogenous increase in on-the-job search increases the quantity of jobs but decreases their quality; with sufficient on-the-job search there is full employment, and wage dispersion rather than unemployment motivates workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Locus of control and job search strategies (2015)
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Caliendo, Marco, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark & Arne Uhlendorff (2015): Locus of control and job search strategies. In: The Review of Economics and Statistics, Jg. 97, H. 1, S. 71-87. DOI:10.1162/REST_a_00459
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"Standard job search theory assumes that unemployed individuals have perfect information about the effect of their search effort on the job offer arrival rate. In this paper, we present an alternative model which assumes instead that each individual has a subjective belief about the impact of his or her search effort on the rate at which job offers arrive. These beliefs depend in part on an individual's locus of control, i.e., the extent to which a person believes that future outcomes are determined by his or her own actions as opposed to external factors. We estimate the impact of locus of control on job search behavior using a novel panel data set of newly-unemployed individuals in Germany. Consistent with our theoretical predictions, we find evidence that individuals with an internal locus of control search more and that individuals who believe that their future outcomes are determined by external factors have lower reservation wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job search, locus of control, and internal migration (2015)
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Caliendo, Marco, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Juliane Hennecke & Arne Uhlendorff (2015): Job search, locus of control, and internal migration. (IZA discussion paper 9600), Bonn, 42 S.
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"Internal migration can substantially improve labor market efficiency. Consequently, policy is often targeted towards reducing the barriers workers face in moving to new labor markets. In this paper we explicitly model internal migration as the result of a job search process and demonstrate that assumptions about the timing of job search have fundamental implications for the pattern of internal migration that results. Unlike standard search models, we assume that job seekers do not know the true job offer arrival rate, but instead form subjective beliefs - related to their locus of control - about the impact of their search effort on the probability of receiving a job offer. Those with an internal locus of control are predicted to search more intensively (i.e. across larger geographic areas) because they expect higher returns to their search effort. However, they are predicted to migrate more frequently only if job search occurs before migration. We then test the empirical implications of this model. We find that individuals with an internal locus of control not only express a greater willingness to move, but also undertake internal migration more frequently." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Information frictions and labor market outcomes (2015)
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Cardoso, Ana Rute, Annalisa Loviglio & Lavinia Piemontese (2015): Information frictions and labor market outcomes. (IZA discussion paper 9070), Bonn, 43 S.
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"We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey 2008, we find a sizeable gap between workers' perceptions of the unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor market tightness. To handle the interval nature of our outcome of interest, the earnings variable, we estimate interval regressions, as well as ordered probit models. We follow a threefold strategy to tackle potential endogeneity problems, as the model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment rate and which is known to influence regional wages. Results show that when subjective perceptions overstate the unemployment rate in the country, a one percentage point gap between the perceived and the actual unemployment rate reduces individual wages by 0.4 to 0.7 percent. We discuss a potential mechanism generating this result. A pessimistic view of the labor market leads to concern over own future employment prospects and is thus likely to lower reservation wages; a too optimistic view, in turn, could raise reservation wages, but it would render job finding more difficult." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of labor taxes and unemployment compensation on labor supply in a search model with an endogenous labor force (2015)
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Chen, Been-Lon & Chih-Fang Lai (2015): Effects of labor taxes and unemployment compensation on labor supply in a search model with an endogenous labor force. In: Journal of macroeconomics, Jg. 43, H. March, S. 300-317. DOI:10.1016/j.jmacro.2014.12.005
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"Labor taxes and unemployment compensation were blamed for causing relative declines in labor supply in the EU to the US in the past decades. We propose a model with an endogenous labor force and compare with the model with an exogenous labor force. Because of discouraging the labor force, labor taxes decrease employment in our model less than the model with an exogenous labor force, have ambiguous effects on hours, and decrease less labor supply in our model. Due to boosting the labor force, unemployment compensation increases employment in our model and decreases in the model with an exogenous labor force, but with opposite effects on hours, labor supply is ambiguous in both models. To understand the net effect on labor supply, we feed in the data of increases in labor taxes and unemployment compensation in the EU relative to the US. We find that the model with an exogenous labor force explain excessively of decreases in employment and labor supply, with increases in hours against the data. In contrast, our model explains reasonable decreases in labor supply, with sensible decreases in employment and in hours. Thus, with an endogenous labor force, our model explains relative declines in labor supply better than the model with an exogenous labor force." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job search intention, theory of planned behavior, personality and job search experience (2015)
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Fort, Isabelle, Catherine Pacaud & Pierre-Yves Gilles (2015): Job search intention, theory of planned behavior, personality and job search experience. In: International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, Jg. 15, H. 1, S. 57-74. DOI:10.1007/s10775-014-9281-3
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"Diese Studie beabsichtigte nicht nur die Beziehungen zwischen Variablen der Theorie des geplanten Verhaltens und der Absicht zur Jobsuche innerhalb einer französischen Stichprobe zu bestätigen, sondern auch moderierende Effekte für diese Beziehungen durch Erfahrungen bezüglich der Jobsuche und durch zwei Persönlichkeitsdimensionen (Extraversion und Gewissenhaftigkeit) zu überprüfen. 154 Teilnehmer beurteilten die relevanten Konzepte auf einer Reihe von mehreren Skalen. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass Variablen der Theorie des geplanten Verhaltens signifikant im Zusammenhang mit der Absicht zur Jobsuche stehen, und dass Extraversion sowie Gewissenhaftigkeit den Zusammenhang zwischen Einstellungen und der Absicht zur Jobsuche moderieren. Die Ergebnisse werden in Bezug zu bisheriger Forschung und praktischen Implikationen diskutiert." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions (2015)
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Gautier, Pieter A. & Coen N. Teulings (2015): Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, Jg. 13, H. 6, S. 1136-1166. DOI:10.1111/jeea.12134
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"We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search (OJS) and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. For given values of nonmarket time, the relative efficiency of OJS, and the amount of search frictions, we derive a simple relationship between the unemployment rate, mismatch, and wage dispersion. We estimate the latter two from standard micro data. Our methodology accounts for measurement error, which is crucial to distinguish true from spurious mismatch and wage dispersion. We find that without frictions, output would be about 9.5% higher if firms can commit to pay wages as a function of match quality and 15.5% higher if they cannot. Noncommitment leads to a business-stealing externality which causes a 5.5% drop in output." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Wage dispersion and search behavior (2015)
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Hall, Robert E. & Andreas I. Mueller (2015): Wage dispersion and search behavior. (IZA discussion paper 9527), Bonn, 55 S.
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"We use a rich new body of data on the experiences of unemployed job-seekers to determine the sources of wage dispersion and to create a search model consistent with the acceptance decisions the job-seekers made. From the data and the model, we identify the distributions of four key variables: offered wages, offered non-wage job values, the value of the job-seeker's non-work alternative, and the job-seeker's personal productivity. We find that, conditional on personal productivity, the dispersion of offered wages is moderate, accounting for 21 percent of the total variation in observed offered wages, whereas the dispersion of the non-wage component of offered job values is substantially larger. We relate our findings to an influential recent paper by Hornstein, Krusell, and Violante who called attention to the tension between the fairly high dispersion of the values job-seekers assign to their job offers - which suggest a high value to sampling from multiple offers - and the fact that the job-seekers often accept the first offer they receive." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Efficient firm dynamics in a frictional labor market (2015)
Kaas, Leo; Kircher, Philipp;Zitatform
Kaas, Leo & Philipp Kircher (2015): Efficient firm dynamics in a frictional labor market. In: The American economic review, Jg. 105, H. 10, S. 3030-3060. DOI:10.1257/aer.20131702
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"We develop and analyze a labor market model in which heterogeneous firms operate under decreasing returns and compete for labor by posting long-term contracts. Firms achieve faster growth by offering higher lifetime wages, which allows them to fill vacancies with higher probability, consistent with recent empirical findings. The model also captures several other regularities about firm size, job flows, and pay, and generates sluggish aggregate dynamics of labor market variables. In contrast to existing bargaining models with large firms, efficiency obtains and the model allows a tractable characterization over the business cycle." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Explaining U-shape of the referral hiring pattern in a search model with heterogeneous workers (2015)
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Stupnytska, Yuliia & Anna Zaharieva (2015): Explaining U-shape of the referral hiring pattern in a search model with heterogeneous workers. In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Jg. 119, H. November, S. 211-233. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2015.08.012
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"This paper presents a search model with heterogeneous workers, social networks and endogenous search intensity. There are three job search channels: costly formal applications and two costless informal channels - through family and professional networks. Our model explains a U-shape referral hiring pattern observed in empirical studies and a strong selection of workers on productivity across the three channels. Moreover, combining family and professional referrals into one informal channel may generate a spurious result of wage premiums (penalties) if high (low) productivity workers are dominating in the empirical data and their productivity is not fully observable to the econometrician." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Informal versus formal search: which yields a better pay? (2015)
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Tumen, Semih (2015): Informal versus formal search. Which yields a better pay? (IZA discussion paper 9573), Bonn, 33 S.
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"Estimates on the effect of job contact method - i.e., informal versus formal search - on wage offers vary considerably across studies, with some of them finding a positive correlation between getting help from informal connections and obtaining high-paying jobs, while others finding a negative one. In this paper, I theoretically investigate the sources of discrepancies in these empirical results. Using a formal job search framework, I derive an equilibrium wage distribution which reveals that the informal search yields for some groups higher and for some others lower wages than formal search. The key result is the existence of nonmonotonicities in wage offers. Two potential sources of these nonmonotonicities exist: (i) peer effects and (ii) unobserved worker heterogeneity in terms of the inherent cost of maintaining connections within a productive informal network. The model predicts that a greater degree of unobserved heterogeneity tilts the estimates toward producing a positive correlation between informal search and higher wages, whereas stronger peer influences tend to yield a negative correlation. This conclusion informs the empirical research in the sense that identification of the true correlation between job contact methods and wage offers requires a careful assessment of the unobserved heterogeneity and peer influences in the relevant sample." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality (2014)
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vikström, Johan;Zitatform
Berg, Gerard J. van den & Johan Vikström (2014): Monitoring job offer decisions, punishments, exit to work, and job quality. In: The Scandinavian journal of economics, Jg. 116, H. 2, S. 284-334. DOI:10.1111/sjoe.12051
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"Unemployment insurance systems include monitoring of unemployed workers and punitive sanctions if job search requirements are violated. We analyze the effect of sanctions on the ensuing job quality, notably on wage rates and hours worked, and we examine how often a sanction leads to a lower occupational level. The data cover the Swedish population over 1999-2004. We estimate duration models dealing with selection on unobservable. We use weighted exogenous sampling maximum likelihood to deal with the fact the data register is large whereas observed punishments are rare. We also develop a theoretical job search model with monitoring of job offer rejection vis-a-vis monitoring of job search effort. The observation window includes a policy change in which the punishment severity was reduced. We find that the hourly wage and the number of hours are on average lower after a sanction, and that individuals move more often to a lower occupational level, incurring human capital losses. Monitoring offers rejections is less effective than monitoring search effort." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Search, flows, job creations and destructions (2014)
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Cahuc, Pierre (2014): Search, flows, job creations and destructions. (IZA discussion paper 8173), Bonn, 22 S.
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"This paper presents a short overview of dynamic models of labor markets with transaction costs. It shows that these models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage formation. It argues that this renewal provides a very useful toolkit for analyzing important economic policy issues such as the optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection legislation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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On-the-job search and finding a good job through social contacts (2014)
Horvath, Gergely;Zitatform
Horvath, Gergely (2014): On-the-job search and finding a good job through social contacts. In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Jg. 14, H. 1, S. 1-33. DOI:10.1515/bejte-2013-0033
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"The interactions between on-the-job search and finding a job through social contacts are investigated in a Diamond - Mortensen - Pissarides search model with heterogeneous wages. Workers may find a job through their social contacts and on the formal market. The presence of social contacts increases the overall welfare in society as it rises the number of workers earning high wages and decreases the unemployment rate. However, unemployed workers finding a job through social ties earn lower wages on average than those who obtain a job on the formal market. This result follows from on-the-job search: employed workers pass only those offers on to their neighbors that pay (weakly) lower wages than their current wages earned. Despite the wage discount, unemployed workers still might find it beneficial to search via social ties because arrival rate of offers is higher for this channel than for the formal market when the number of neighbors is sufficiently large. There is a trade-off between unemployment duration and wages earned for workers obtaining a job via social ties." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Measuring heterogeneity in job finding rates among the nonemployed using labor force status histories (2014)
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Kudlyak, Marianna & Fabian Lange (2014): Measuring heterogeneity in job finding rates among the nonemployed using labor force status histories. (IZA discussion paper 8663), Bonn, 30 S.
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"We use a novel approach to studying the heterogeneity in the job finding rates of the nonemployed by classifying the nonemployed by labor force status (LFS) histories, instead of using only one-month LFS. Job finding rates differ substantially across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those currently out of the labor force (OLF) with recent employment, 10% among those currently OLF who have been unemployed but not employed in the previous two months, and 2% among those who have been OLF in all three previous months. This heterogeneity cannot be deduced from the one-month LFS or from one-month responses to the CPS survey questions about desire to work or recent search activity. We conclude that LFS histories is an important predictor of the nonemployed's job finding probability, particularly for those OLF." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of savings on reservation wages and search effort (2014)
Lammers, Marloes;Zitatform
Lammers, Marloes (2014): The effects of savings on reservation wages and search effort. In: Labour economics, Jg. 27, H. April, S. 83-98. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2014.03.001
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"This paper discusses the interrelations among wealth, reservation wages and search effort. A theoretical job search model predicts wealth to affect reservation wages positively, and search effort negatively. Subsequently, reduced form equations for reservation wages and search intensity take these theoretical results to the data. The data used is a Dutch panel, containing detailed information on individual wealth and income, subjective reservation wages and proxies for search effort. The main empirical results show that wealth has a significantly positive effect on reservation wages of both household heads and spouses, and a significantly negative effect on the search effort of household heads." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Stellenbesetzungsprozesse am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt: Schwierigkeiten und die besondere Bedeutung sozialer Netzwerke (2014)
Rebien, Martina;Zitatform
Rebien, Martina (2014): Stellenbesetzungsprozesse am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Schwierigkeiten und die besondere Bedeutung sozialer Netzwerke. (IAB-Bibliothek 349), Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 137 S. DOI:10.3278/300855w
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"Was zeichnet schwierige Stellenbesetzungen bei der betrieblichen Personalsuche aus? Welche Rolle spielen dabei soziale Netzwerke - also Freunde, Verwandte und andere persönliche Kontakte? Sind Jobs, die über soziale Netzwerke gefunden wurden, tatsächlich 'bessere' Jobs? Und welche Vorteile haben Betriebe, die ihr Personal über soziale Netzwerke rekrutieren? Diesen Fragen geht Martina Rebien in ihrer Dissertationsschrift nach. Sie legt dar, dass einige gängige Annahmen über Schwierigkeiten bei der Stellenbesetzung und über die Bedeutung sozialer Netzwerke am Arbeitsmarkt einer tieferen empirischen Überprüfung nicht standhalten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Success and failure in the operational recruitment process: contrasting the outcomes of search (2014)
Rebien, Martina; Kubis, Alexander; Müller, Anne;Zitatform
Rebien, Martina, Alexander Kubis & Anne Müller (2014): Success and failure in the operational recruitment process. Contrasting the outcomes of search. (IAB-Discussion Paper 07/2014), Nürnberg, 19 S.
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"In der Theorie sollte jede offene Stelle über kurz oder lang durch eine geeignete Arbeitskraft besetzt werden. Aus empirischer Sicht zeigt sich jedoch, dass offene Stellen unbesetzt bleiben, wenn Firmen die Suche nach einem geeigneten Kandidaten aufgeben.
Die IAB-Stellenerhebung (IAB-SE) ist eine repräsentative Betriebsbefragung zu offenen Stellen und Stellenbesetzungsprozessen in Deutschland. Sie bietet Informationen sowohl zu aktuellen Stellenbesetzungen als auch zu erfolgloser Bewerbersuche. Die Analyse stützt sich dabei auf eine binäre abhängige Variable die für einen bestimmten Betrieb die erfolgreiche und nicht erfolgreiche Personalsuche identifiziert (Abbruchwahrscheinlichkeit).
Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine längere Dauer der Personalsuche zu einer höheren Wahrscheinlichkeit von Abbrüchen führt. Zudem wird deutlich, dass ein Abbruch der Personalsuche stark mit den Anforderungen, die ein Kandidat für die offene Stelle aufweisen muss und der Art und Weise wie die Personalsuche organisiert ist, zusammenhängt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku) -
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Search and nonwage job characteristics (2014)
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Sullivan, Paul & Ted To (2014): Search and nonwage job characteristics. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 49, H. 2, S. 472-507.
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"This paper quantifies the importance of nonwage job characteristics to workers by estimating a structural on- the- job search model. The model generalizes the standard search framework by allowing workers to search for jobs based on both wages and job- specific nonwage utility flows. Within the structure of the search model, data on accepted wages and wage changes at job transitions identify the importance of nonwage utility through revealed preference. The estimates reveal that utility from nonwage job characteristics plays an important role in determining job mobility, the value of jobs to workers, and the gains from job search." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Self determination theory and employed job search (2014)
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Welters, Riccardo, William Mitchell & Joan Muysken (2014): Self determination theory and employed job search. In: Journal of economic psychology, Jg. 44, H. October, S. 34-44. DOI:10.1016/j.joep.2014.06.002
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"Self Determination Theory (SDT) predicts that employees who use controlled motivation to search for alternate (better) work are less successful than their counterparts who use autonomous motivation. Using Australian labour market data, we find strong support for SDT. We find that workers who face externally regulated pressures (pressure arising from involuntary part-time or casual labour contracts) to search for alternate employment are less likely to find better work, than workers who use autonomous motives to search for work. Our findings suggest that labour market policies trending towards 'labour market flexibility/deregulation' - which provide workers with controlled motives to search for work - will contribute to workers cycling through spells of insecure employment and possibly intermittent spells of unemployment with no realistic prospect of career development." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labor market and search through personal contacts (2013)
Chuhay, Roman;Zitatform
Chuhay, Roman (2013): Labor market and search through personal contacts. In: The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Jg. 13, H. 1, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1515/bejte-2012-0021
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"In this article, we consider the impact of personal contacts on the labor market outcome. Unlike previous studies, we do not assume any particular network structure or vacancies communication protocol. Instead, we state three general properties of matching functions that allow us to establish the existence and uniqueness of equilibrium and characterize the impact of social ties on the labor market. In particular, we show that a monotonically increasing matching function in socialization level is a necessary and sufficient condition for having monotonically decreasing unemployment and increasing wage and market tightness. However, the same does not apply to vacancy rate. We establish a condition under which a monotonically increasing matching function produces a vacancy rate that first increases in socialization level, but then decreases." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Monitoring job search effort with hyperbolic time preferences and non-compliance: a welfare analysis (2013)
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Cockx, Bart, Corinna Ghirelli & Bruno Van der Linden (2013): Monitoring job search effort with hyperbolic time preferences and non-compliance. A welfare analysis. (IZA discussion paper 7266), Bonn, 42 S.
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"This paper develops a partial equilibrium job search model to study the behavioral and welfare implications of an Unemployment Insurance (UI) scheme in which job search requirements are imposed on UI recipients with hyperbolic preferences. We show that, if the search requirements are well chosen, a perfect monitoring scheme can in principle increase the job finding rate and, contrary to what happens with exponential discounting, it can raise the expected lifetime utility of the current and future selves of sophisticated hyperbolic discounters. The same holds for naive agents if the welfare criterion ignores their misperception problem. In sum, introducing a perfect monitoring scheme can be a Pareto improvement. However, if claimants have the opportunity to withdraw from the UI scheme, their long-run utility can even be lower than in the absence of job search requirements. Imperfections in the measurement of job-search effort further reduce the chances that monitoring raises the welfare of the unemployed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Discouraging workers: estimating the impacts of macroeconomic shocks on the search intensity of the unemployed (2013)
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DeLoach, Stephen B. & Mark Kurt (2013): Discouraging workers. Estimating the impacts of macroeconomic shocks on the search intensity of the unemployed. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 34, H. 4, S. 433-454. DOI:10.1007/s12122-013-9166-0
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"Discouraged and marginally attached workers have received increasing attention from policy makers over the past several years. Through slackness in the labor market, periods of high unemployment should reduce the likelihood of receiving a job offer and thus create more discouraged workers. However, the existing literature generally fails to find evidence of such pro-cyclicality in search intensity. Surprisingly, search appears to be acyclical. We hypothesize the observed acyclicality may be the result of coarse measurement of search intensity in previous studies and the failure to account for changes in individuals' wealth across the business cycle. In this paper we use daily time use dairies from the American Time Use Survey 2003 - 2011 to examine the cyclicality of search intensity to explain this apparent contradiction between theory and data. Results indicate that workers do reduce their search in response to deteriorating labor market conditions, but these effects appear to be offset by the positive effects on search that are correlated with declines in household wealth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Arbeitsmarktökonomik (2013)
Franz, Wolfgang;Zitatform
Franz, Wolfgang (2013): Arbeitsmarktökonomik. (Springer-Lehrbuch), Berlin: Springer London, 498 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-36902-5
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"Dieses Buch bietet die für den deutschsprachigen Raum wohl umfassendste Darstellung des Arbeitsmarktgeschehens. Ein besonderes Gewicht liegt auf der engen Verzahnung von theoretischen mit empirischen Analysen unter Berücksichtigung des institutionellen Regelwerkes auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und verbunden mit wirtschafts-, insbesondere arbeitsmarktpolitischen Handlungsalternativen. Das Problem der Arbeitslosigkeit und ihre Bekämpfung nimmt hierbei einen besonders breiten Raum ein. Zahlreiche 'Fallbeispiele' stellen Bezüge zu aktuellen Entwicklungen her. Wichtige Fakten und ihre statistische Erfassung - wie etwa die Arbeitslosenstatistik - werden ausführlich dargestellt und diskutiert. Die achte Auflage vertieft die Diskussion der Effekte eines Mindestlohns, liefert neuere Ergebnisse zur Lohnungleichheit und berücksichtigt die neuen gesetzlichen Regelungen und Änderungen des Arbeitsrechts. Neben allgemeinen den Inhalt vertiefenden Ergänzungen sind Tabellen und Schaubilder mit aktuellen Daten auf den neuesten Stand gebracht worden.
Der Inhalt
I Einführung - Der Arbeitsmarkt im Überblick: Fragen an die Arbeitsmarktökonomik
II Die Entscheidung der privaten Haushalte über die optimale Zeitallokation III Die Firmenentscheidung über den optimalen Arbeitseinsatz
IV Die Koordination von Arbeitsangebot und -nachfrage auf dem Arbeitsmarkt V Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen und Lohnbildung
VI Arbeitslosigkeit" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku) -
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The matching function: a selection-based interpretation (2013)
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Kohlbrecher, Britta, Christian Merkl & Daniela Nordmeier (2013): The matching function. A selection-based interpretation. (LASER discussion papers 70), Erlangen, 33 S.
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"This paper reconsiders the matching function. In a first step, we estimate an aggregate matching function with German administrative data. Our results provide renewed evidence for a Cobb-Douglas matching function with constant returns to scale. Relying on restricted matching elasticities, we further show that it is important to control for various heterogeneities in the aggregate job finding rate. In a second step, we derive a simple labor selection model where vacancies do not have any aggregate effects, but appear as a worker attraction device. When we simulate this model for the German economy and estimate a matching function from the generated data, we also obtain evidence for a Cobb-Douglas function with constant returns to scale. In this fictional matching function, the elasticity of matches with respect to vacancies is a function of the exogenous contact probability. Thus, our paper suggests that the empirical evidence of the matching function may have a completely different interpretation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job search requirements for older workers: the effect on reservation wages (2013)
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Nivorozhkin, Anton, Laura Romeu Gordo & Julia Schneider (2013): Job search requirements for older workers. The effect on reservation wages. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 34, H. 5, S. 517-535., 2011-11-18. DOI:10.1108/IJM-05-2013-0114
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"The goal of the paper is to investigate how reservation wages of older unemployed welfare recipients change once they are no longer subject to standard job search requirements. The authors apply a regression discontinuity design. Consistent with theoretical predictions, the authors' findings indicate that eliminating job search requirements will tend to increase reservation wages. The results correspond to previous findings in the literature that monitoring leads to lower accepted wages and increased exits rates from unemployment, and that it may be a successful policy measure to keep older workers in the labor market. Monitoring of job search effort has been shown to be an effective method of activating unemployed people, but little evidence has been found on the effect of activation measures on older workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions (2012)
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Gautier, Pieter A. & Coen N. Teulings (2012): Sorting and the output loss due to search frictions. (CPB discussion paper / CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis 206), The Hague, 46 S.
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"We analyze a general search model with on-the-job search and sorting of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of wage dispersion is more robust than measures based on the reservation wage, due to the long left tail of the wage distribution. We estimate this wage differential using data on match quality and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment rate of 4-6%. We find that without search frictions, output would be between 7.5% and 18.5% higher, depending on whether or not firms can ex ante commit to wage payments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Job market signaling of relative position, or Becker married to Spence (2012)
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Hopkins, Ed (2012): Job market signaling of relative position, or Becker married to Spence. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, Jg. 10, H. 2, S. 290-322. DOI:10.1111/j.1542-4774.2010.01047.x
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"This paper considers a matching model of the labor market where workers, who have private information on their quality, signal to firms that also differ in quality. Signals allow assortative matching in which the highest-quality workers send the highest signals and are hired by the best firms. Matching is considered both when wages are rigid (nontransferable utility) and when they are fully flexible (transferable utility). In both cases, equilibrium strategies and payoffs depend on the distributions of worker and firm types. This is in contrast to separating equilibria of the standard model, which do not respond to changes in supply or demand. With sticky wages, despite incomplete information, equilibrium investment in education by low-ability workers can be inefficiently low, and this distortion can become worse in a more competitive environment. In contrast, with flexible wages, greater competition improves efficiency." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Selective hiring and welfare analysis in labor market models (2012)
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Merkl, Christian & Thijs van Rens (2012): Selective hiring and welfare analysis in labor market models. (IZA discussion paper 6294), Bonn, 27 S.
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"Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard search models of the labor market, all workers have the same probability of being hired. We argue that selective hiring crucially affects welfare analysis. Our model is isomorphic to a search model under random hiring but allows for selective hiring. With selective hiring, the positive predictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are much larger because unemployment risk is distributed unequally across workers. As a result, optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is selective." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do matching frictions explain unemployment?: not in bad times (2012)
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Michaillat, Pascal (2012): Do matching frictions explain unemployment? Not in bad times. In: The American economic review, Jg. 102, H. 4, S. 1721-1750. DOI:10.1257/aer.102.4.1721
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"This paper proposes a search-and-matching model of unemployment in which jobs are rationed: the labor market does not clear in the absence of matching frictions. This job shortage arises in an economic equilibrium from the combination of some wage rigidity and diminishing marginal returns to labor. In recessions, job rationing is acute, driving the rise in unemployment, whereas matching frictions contribute little to unemployment. Intuitively in recessions, jobs are lacking, the labor market is slack, and recruiting is easy and inexpensive, so matching frictions do not matter much. In a calibrated model, cyclical fluctuations in the composition of unemployment are large." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Assortative matching through signals (2012)
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Poeschel, Friedrich (2012): Assortative matching through signals. (IAB-Discussion Paper 15/2012), Nürnberg, 37 S.
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"Verbindungen zwischen ähnlichen Subjekten sind ein häufig beobachtetes Phänomen. Damit solche Sortierungen in einem Suchmodell auftreten, müssen oft jedoch überraschend starke Bedingungen erfüllt sein. Diese Studie zeigt, dass ein um Signale erweitertes Suchmodell sogar vollkommene Sortierungen unter schwachen Bedingungen generieren kann: Supermodularität der Produktionsfunktion für die Verbindung ist notwendige und hinreichende Bedingung. Sie wirkt zugleich als Ursprung der Sortierung und als 'single-crossing'-Eigenschaft, die die Subjekte zutreffende Signale wählen lässt. Die dadurch verbreiteten Informationen erlauben es den Subjekten, alle unnötigen Kosten einer zufallsgeleiteten Suche zu vermeiden, so dass effektiv eine Umgebung ohne Friktionen entsteht. Daher zeichnet sich das einzige Separationsgleichgewicht des Modells durch nahezu uneingeschränkte Effizienz trotz Friktionen aus." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Social networks, job search methods and reservation wages: evidence for Germany (2011)
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Caliendo, Marco, Ricarda Schmidl & Arne Uhlendorff (2011): Social networks, job search methods and reservation wages. Evidence for Germany. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 32, H. 7, S. 796-824. DOI:10.1108/01437721111174767
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"This paper aims to analyze the role of social networks on the job search choices of the unemployed. If social networks convey useful information in the job search process, individuals with larger networks should experience a higher productivity of informal search channels. This in turn affects the choice of formal search intensity and the reservation wage. The paper seeks to test these search-theoretic implications of productive social networks empirically. The authors use the IZA Evaluation Dataset containing detailed information on job search behavior of recently unemployed individuals. Observing a rich array of personality traits and direct measures of the social network, the authors choose an identification approach based on observable characteristics using least squares and binary probit regression analysis. The findings confirm theoretical expectations. Individuals with larger networks use informal search channels more often and shift from formal to informal search. In addition to that, evidence is found for a positive relationship between network size and reservation wages. The extent to which networks are used during job search most likely also depends on the quality of the network, which cannot be observed in the data. However, as the network significantly changes the observable formal job search effort of individuals, public job search monitoring policies should take these effects into account. The paper complements the previous body of literature on the role of social networks in the labor market that predominantly focuses on labor market outcomes. By highlighting the interaction between networks and job search choices the paper improves the understanding of realized labor market outcomes in the presence of networks." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Unemployment, vacancies, wages (2011)
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Diamond, Peter (2011): Unemployment, vacancies, wages. In: The American economic review, Jg. 101, H. 4, S. 1045-1072. DOI:10.1257/aer.101.4.1045
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In Form eines Essays analysiert der Autor verschiedene Gleichgewichtsmodelle, um die Zusammenhänge zwischen Arbeitslosigkeit und anderen Wirtschaftsfaktoren wie Lohnentwicklung, Stellennachfrage und Wirtschaftsentwicklung darzustellen. Er plädiert dafür, diese komplexen Zusammenhänge nicht in partiellen, sondern in allgemeinen Modellen umzusetzen. (IAB)
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Referral hiring, endogenous social networks, and inequality: an agent-based analysis (2011)
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Gemkow, Simon & Michael Neugart (2011): Referral hiring, endogenous social networks, and inequality. An agent-based analysis. In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Jg. 21, H. 4, S. 703-719. DOI:10.1007/s00191-011-0219-3
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"The importance of referral hiring, which is workers finding employment via social contacts, is nowadays an empirically well documented fact. It also has been shown that social networks for finding jobs can create stratification. These analyses are, by and large, based on exogenous network structures. We go beyond the existing work by building an agent-based model of the labor market in which the social network of potential referees is endogenous. Workers invest some of their endowments into building up and fostering their social networks as an insurance device against future job losses. We look into the manner in which social networks and inequality respond to increased uncertainty in the labor market. We find that larger variability in firms' labor demand reduces workers' efforts put into social networks, leading to lower inequality." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Equilibrium in the labor market with search frictions (2011)
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Pissarides, Christopher A. (2011): Equilibrium in the labor market with search frictions. In: The American economic review, Jg. 101, H. 4, S. 1092-1105. DOI:10.1257/aer.101.4.1092
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Unter Bezug auf die Finanzkrise 2008 und die Zusammenhänge zwischen dem Arbeitsmarkt und der Lohnentwicklung wird dafür argumentiert, dass stärker als bisher auch der Kapitalmarkt sowie der Finanzsektor in die Betrachtungen einbezogen werden sollen. Die bisherigen Modelle vernachlässigen den Kapitalmarkt bzw. unterstellen, dass er perfekt funktioniere. (IAB)
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Matching labor's share in a search and matching model (2011)
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Reicher, Christopher Phillip (2011): Matching labor's share in a search and matching model. (Kieler Arbeitspapier 1733), Kiel, 35 S.
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"In the United States, labor's share of income falls after a positive disturbance to productivity growth or inflation, and it remains low for some time. Previous researchers have argued that the negative relationship between productivity growth and labor's share is puzzling. I argue otherwise. A search and matching model with infrequently bargained nominal wages would predict the observed behavior of labor's share after a productivity disturbance, and it also predicts the observed behavior of labor's share after an inflationary disturbance. Wages at the macroeconomic level seem to be sticky in a way which is consistent with microeconomic evidence; much of the ongoing discussion about the real effects of sticky wages seems to be well-motivated, while sticky price models fail to match the data." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Handbuch Arbeitssoziologie (2010)
Böhle, Fritz; Aulenbacher, Brigitte; Kleemann, Frank; Köhler, Christoph ; Hoffmann, Anna; Krause, Alexandra; Bode, Ingo ; Manske, Alexandra; Bosch, Gerhard; Marrs, Kira; Demszky von der Hagen, Alma; Moldaschl, Manfred; Dunkel, Wolfgang; Pfeiffer, Sabine ; Geissler, Birgit; Pries, Ludger ; Hirsch-Kreinsen, Hartmut; Sauer, Dieter; Jochum, Georg ; Schmidt, Gert; Kädtler, Jürgen; Schmierl, Klaus; Voß, G. Günter; Schnell, Christiane; Brater, Michael; Trinczek, Rainer; Funder, Maria; Türk, Klaus; Jacobsen, Heike; Vogel, Berthold; Wachtler, Günther; Weihrich, Margit; Dörre, Klaus; Windeler, Arnold ; Jürgens, Kerstin ; Wirth, Carsten ; Gottschall, Karin ; Böhle, Fritz;Zitatform
Aulenbacher, Brigitte, Frank Kleemann, Christoph Köhler, Alexandra Krause, Ingo Bode, Alexandra Manske, Gerhard Bosch, Kira Marrs, Alma Demszky von der Hagen, Manfred Moldaschl, Wolfgang Dunkel, Sabine Pfeiffer, Birgit Geissler, Ludger Pries, Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen, Dieter Sauer, Georg Jochum, Gert Schmidt, Jürgen Kädtler, Klaus Schmierl, Christiane Schnell, Michael Brater, Rainer Trinczek, Maria Funder, Klaus Türk, Heike Jacobsen, Berthold Vogel, Margit Weihrich, Klaus Dörre, Arnold Windeler, Kerstin Jürgens, Carsten Wirth, Karin Gottschall & Fritz Böhle (2010): Handbuch Arbeitssoziologie. Wiesbaden: VS, Verl. für Sozialwissenschaften, 1013 S.
Abstract
"Das Buch gibt einen Überblick über die bisherigen Entwicklungen und den gegenwärtigen Stand zentraler Themenbereiche der Arbeitssoziologie. Das Handbuch vermittelt grundlegendes Wissen und gibt wichtige Forschungsbereiche und Diskurse der Arbeitssoziologie wieder. Theoriebestände und empirische Ergebnisse werden aufbereitet, um wesentlichen Konzepte und Perspektiven des Faches erkennbar zu machen. Gerade in der gegenwärtigen Phase tiefgreifender Umbrüche in den Formen und Erscheinungsweisen von Arbeit ist ein Blick auf den breiten Bestand von Theorien, Konzepten und Begriffen sowie empirischen Befunden eine wichtige Grundlage für Ausbildung, Forschung und Praxis. Aus dieser Perspektive werden in den Beiträgen gegenwärtige Entwicklungen von Arbeit beschrieben, aktuelle Konzepte für deren Analyse vorgestellt und neue Herausforderungen für die Forschung umrissen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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What informational basis for assessing job-seekers?: capabilities vs. preferences (2005)
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Bonvin, Jean-Michel & Nicolas Farvaque (2005): What informational basis for assessing job-seekers? Capabilities vs. preferences. In: Review of Social Economy, Jg. 63, H. 2, S. 269-289. DOI:10.1080/0034676500130614
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"The evaluative function of local public actors has been exacerbated in recent years with the individualisation of social policies. One of their tasks is to select the appropriate informational basis in order to assess welfare claimants. Amartya Sen's capability approach offers a theoretical and normative framework to analyse this evaluative function. In particular, it insists on the importance of 'objectivating' people's preferences with reference to their capabilities. The weight that is to be attached to individual preferences in the course of public action can be a matter of controversy. Claimants 'capability for voice', we argue, should be developed. This capability refers to their effective possibility to express their concerns with regard to the choice of the informational basis. It is argued that local institutions prohibiting capability for voice will produce adaptive preferences, whereas procedural institutions promoting reflexive public evaluation and capability for voice will result in a fairer wording of individual preferences. At a situated level, the way to connect subjective and objective information when assessing people very much depends on the position of the evaluator. Several illustrations show that the fairness of evaluation, and its impact on the people's capability set, depend on this positional perspective." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Senkt aktive Jobsuche die Arbeitslosigkeit? (2000)
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Jahn, Elke J. & Thomas Wagner (2000): Senkt aktive Jobsuche die Arbeitslosigkeit? (WEP-working paper 04), Erlangen u.a., 39 S.
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"Arbeitslose verbessern durch aktive Jobsuche ihre Vermittlungschance, doch der Schluß, daß aktive Jobsuche die aggregierte Arbeitslosigkeit reduziert, beruht auf einer fallacy of composition. Der Arbeitslosenpool besteht aus heterogenen Typen, deren typspezifische Übergangsraten unterschiedlich auf die Zahl der aktiven Jobsucher unter den konkurrierenden Arbeitslosengruppen und die Zahl der offerierten Vakanzen reagieren. Das Modell zeigt, warum Arbeitsmarktpolitik, die darauf zielt, mit Suchvorschriften oder Wiederbeschäftigungsprämien die Anzahl der aktiven Jobsucher unter den Arbeitslosen zu erhöhen, die aggregierte Arbeitslosigkeit steigern kann." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)