matching – Suchprozesse am Arbeitsmarkt
Offene Stellen bei gleichzeitiger Arbeitslosigkeit - was Arbeitsmarkttheorien u. a. mit "unvollkommener Information" begründen, ist für Unternehmen und Arbeitsuchende oft nur schwer nachzuvollziehen: Unternehmen können freie Stellen nicht besetzen, trotzdem finden Arbeitsuchende nur schwer den passenden Job. Wie gestalten sich die Suchprozesse bei Unternehmen und Arbeitsuchenden, welche Konzessionen sind beide Seiten bereit einzugehen, wie lässt sich das "matching" verbessern?
Diese Infoplattform bietet wissenschaftliche Literatur zur theoretischen und empirischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema.
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The Potential of Recommender Systems for Directing Job Search: A Large-Scale Experiment (2024)
Behaghel, Luc; Hazard, Yagan; Gurgand, Marc; Dromundo, Sofia; Zuber, Thomas;Zitatform
Behaghel, Luc, Sofia Dromundo, Marc Gurgand, Yagan Hazard & Thomas Zuber (2024): The Potential of Recommender Systems for Directing Job Search: A Large-Scale Experiment. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16781), Bonn, 65 S.
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"We analyze the employment effects of directing job seekers' applications toward establishments likely to recruit. We run a two-sided randomization design involving about 800,000 job seekers and 40,000 establishments, based on an empirical model that recommends each job seeker to firms so as to maximize total potential employment. Our intervention induces a 1% increase in job finding rates for short term contracts. This impact comes from a targeting effect combining (i) a modest increase in job seekers' applications to the very firms that were recommended to them, and (ii) a high success rate conditional on applying to these firms. Indeed, the success rate of job seekers' applications varies considerably across firms: the efficiency of applications sent to recommended firms is 2.7 times higher than the efficiency of applications to the average firm. This suggests that there can be substantial gains from better targeting job search, leveraging firm-level heterogeneity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The cyclicality of on-the-job search (2024)
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Bransch, Felix, Samreen Malik & Benedikt Mihm (2024): The cyclicality of on-the-job search. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 87. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102517
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"On-the-job search is increasingly recognized as an important potential driver of labor market dynamics over the business cycle. Using the UK Labor Force Survey, we find robust empirical evidence that on-the-job search is countercyclical and that the cyclical fluctuations have important repercussions for labor market dynamics. We also find that the cyclical pattern is not explained by precautionary search motives but rather appears to be driven by job-ladder-motivated searches. This finding is surprising because, as we confirm, the expected returns to on-the-job search are procyclical. We find evidence that three features of search behavior may contribute to this finding: greater search effort in response to lower job-to-job transition probabilities, a prevalence of non-pecuniary motivated searches that are less affected by lower expected wage gains, and procyclicality in average match quality, which has a significant impact on the search behavior of new hires over the business cycle." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Risk and the allocation of talent in the Roy model (2024)
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Cubas, German, Pedro Silos & Vesa Soini (2024): Risk and the allocation of talent in the Roy model. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 236. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111623
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"With risk-averse workers and uninsurable earnings shocks, competitive markets allocate too few workers to risky jobs. Using an equilibrium Roy model with incomplete markets, we show that in competitive equilibrium, risky occupations are inefficiently small and hence talent is misallocated." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Search, unemployment, and the Beveridge curve: Experimental evidence (2024)
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Duffy, John & Brian C. Jenkins (2024): Search, unemployment, and the Beveridge curve: Experimental evidence. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 87. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2024.102518
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"We report on a laboratory experiment testing the predictions of the Diamond–Mortensen–Pissarides (DMP) search-and-matching model, which is a workhorse, decentralized model of unemployment and the labor market. We focus on the job vacancy posting problem that firms face in the DMP model. We explore the model’s comparative statics predictions concerning variations in the separation rate, the vacancy posting cost, and the firm’s surplus earned per employee. Across all treatments, we find strong evidence for an inverse relationship between vacancies and unemployment, consistent with the Beveridge curve. We also find that the results of our various comparative statics exercises are in-line with the predictions of the theory." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Worker mobility and UI extensions (2024)
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Goensch, Johannes, Andreas Gulyas & Ioannis Kospentaris (2024): Worker mobility and UI extensions. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 162. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104672
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"We develop an equilibrium search model with a labor force participation decision, job-to-job transitions, and endogenous separations. The calibrated model perfectly matches the observed labor market flows in US data. We use the model to simulate the effects of an extension of unemployment insurance benefits to 99 weeks. The reform leads to a decrease in employment, an increase in the labor force participation and unemployment rate, while it leaves labor productivity roughly constant. Using a model-based decomposition, as well as comparisons with alternative simplified models, we show that modeling workers’ participation decisions, job-to-job transitions, and endogenous separations together is crucial for a complete and accurate analysis of UI reforms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting (2024)
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Lochner, Benjamin & Bastian Schulz (2024): Firm Productivity, Wages, and Sorting. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 42, H. 1, S. 85-119., 2022-09-13. DOI:10.1086/722564
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"We study the link between firm productivity and the wages that firms pay. Guided by a search-matching model with large firms, worker and firm heterogeneity, and production complementarities, we infer firm productivity by estimating firm-level production functions. Using German data, we find that the most productive firms do not pay the highest wages. Worker transitions from high- to medium-productivity firms are on average associated with wage gains. Productivity sorting, that is, the sorting of high-ability workers into high-productivity firms, is less pronounced than the sorting into high-wage firms." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © University of Chicago Press) ((en))
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What does job applicants' body art signal to employers? (2023)
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Baert, Stijn, Jolien Herregods & Philippe Sterkens (2023): What does job applicants' body art signal to employers? (Working paper / Ghent University. Faculty of Economics and Business Administration 2023,1072), Gent, 30 S.
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"In this study, we present a state-of-the-art scenario experiment which, for the first time in the literature, directly measures the stigma surrounding job candidates with tattoos and piercings using real recruiters. We find that job candidates with body art are perceived as less pleasant to work with, less honest, less emotionally stable, less agreeable, less conscientious and less manageable. This goes hand in hand with lower hireability for men with body art but not for women. Compared to candidates who reveal obesity, a characteristic we also randomise, those with body art score better overall in terms of hireability and rated personality, similar in terms of rated taste to collaborate but worse in terms of rated direct productivity drivers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge-Curve Shifts (2023)
Barlevy, Gadi; Şahin, Ayşegül; Faberman, Jason; Hobijn, Bart;Zitatform
Barlevy, Gadi, Bart Hobijn, Jason Faberman & Ayşegül Şahin (2023): The Shifting Reasons for Beveridge-Curve Shifts. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16517), Bonn, 29 S.
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"We discuss how the relative importance of factors that contribute to movements of the U.S. Beveridge curve has changed from 1960 to 2023. We review these factors in the context of a simple flow analogy used to capture the main insights of search and matching theories of the labor market. Changes in inflow rates, related to demographics, accounted for Beveridge curve shifts between 1960 and 2000. A reduction in matching efficiency, that depressed unemployment outflows, shifted the curve outwards in the wake of the Great Recession. In contrast, the most recent shifts in the Beveridge curve appear driven by changes in the eagerness of workers to switch jobs. We argue that, while the Beveridge curve is a useful tool for relating unemployment and vacancies to inflation, the link between these labor market indicators and inflation depends on whether and why the Beveridge curve shifted. Therefore, a careful examination of the factors underlying movements in the Beveridge curve is essential for drawing policy conclusions from the joint behavior of unemployment and job openings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Vacancy duration and wages (2023)
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Bassier, Ihsaan, Alan Manning & Barbara Petrongolo (2023): Vacancy duration and wages. (CEP discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance 1943), London, 45 S.
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"We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration elasticities by leveraging firm-level wage policies that are plausibly exogenous to hiring difficulties on specific job vacancies, and control for job and market-level fixed-effects. Wage policies are defined based on external information on pay settlements, or on sharp, internally-defined, firm-level changes. In our preferred specifications, we estimate duration elasticities in the range −3 to −5, which are substantially larger than the few existing estimates." (Résumé d'auteur, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The right person for the right job: workers’ prosociality as a screening device (2023)
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Bigoni, Maria, Matteo Ploner & Thi-Thanh-Tam Vu (2023): The right person for the right job: workers’ prosociality as a screening device. In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Jg. 212, S. 53-73. DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2023.04.013
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"The impact of workers’ non-pecuniary motivation on their productivity is a fundamental issue in labor economics. Previous studies indicate that prosocially motivated workers may perform better when assigned to jobs having socially desirable implications – even if effort is non-contractible and they are offered a low-powered fixed-compensation scheme – as compared to a standard job with an effort-contingent payment. This suggests that profit-maximizing employers should assign workers to different jobs, based on workers’ prosociality. We run an experiment to explore the link between workers’ prosociality and their level of effort under a prosocial and a standard job. Our experimental results provide some support to the hypothesis that selfish employers exploit the information on workers’ prosociality to assign them the type of job that would be most profitable from the firm’s perspective. However, the prosocial motivation of employers emerges as a second important determinant of their contract choice: employers’ prosociality drives their contract choice, when the worker is not prosocial." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))
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Labor economics (2023)
Borjas, George J.;Zitatform
Borjas, George J. (2023): Labor economics. New York: MacGraw-Hill, 494 S.
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"Labor Economics, ninth edition by George J. Borjas provides a modern introduction to labor economics, surveying the field with an emphasis on both theory and facts. Labor Economics is thoroughly integrated with the adaptive digital tools available in McGraw-Hill’s Connect, proven to increase student engagement and success in the course. All new Data Explorer questions using data simulation to help students grasp concepts Materials are fresh and up to date by introducing and discussing the latest research studies where conceptual or empirical contributions have increased our understanding of the labor market. The book has undergone Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion reviews to implement content around topics including generalizations and stereotypes, gender, abilities/disabilities, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of names, and age." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labor Demand on a Tight Leash (2023)
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Bossler, Mario & Martin Popp (2023): Labor Demand on a Tight Leash. (LASER discussion papers 143), Erlangen, 77 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2302
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"In diesem Aufsatz stellen wir ein Arbeitsnachfrage-Modell auf, das Einstellungskosten berücksichtigt, die aufgrund eines angespannten Arbeitsmarktes bei der Besetzung offener Stellen anfallen. Darauf aufbauend schätzen wir den Effekt der Arbeitsmarktanspannung auf die betriebliche Arbeitsnachfrage, indem wir neuartige Bartik-Instrumente sowie administrative Beschäftigungsdaten für Deutschland heranziehen. Im Einklang mit der Theorie deuten die IV-Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass ein zehnprozentiger Anstieg der Arbeitsmarktanspannung die betriebliche Beschäftigung um rund 0,5 Prozent reduziert. Außerdem zeigt sich, dass die betriebliche Lohnelastizität der Arbeitsnachfrage durch Einbeziehung von Suchexternalitäten auf der aggregierten Ebene von -0,7 auf -0,5 sinkt. In Bezug auf die Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns im Jahr 2015 implizieren die Elastizitäten nur geringfügig negative Beschäftigungseffekte, was die Ergebnisse empirischer Ex-Post-Evaluationen widerspiegelt. Darüber hinaus führte die Verdoppelung der Arbeitsmarktanspannung in Deutschland zwischen 2012 und 2019 zu einer Verringerung des Beschäftigungswachstums um rund 1,1 Millionen Arbeitsplätze." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Matching Through Search Channels (2023)
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Carillo-Tudela, Carlos, Leo Kaas & Benjamin Lochner (2023): Matching Through Search Channels. (IAB-Discussion Paper 10/2023), Nürnberg, 85 S. DOI:10.48720/IAB.DP.2310
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"Firmen und Arbeitnehmer/-innen finden überwiegend über Stellenanzeigen, persönliche Kontaktnetzwerke oder die Bundesagentur für Arbeit zueinander. All diese Suchkanäle tragen dazu bei, Friktionen am Arbeitsmarkt zu verringern. In diesem Papier untersuchen wir, inwieweit diese Suchkanäle unterschiedliche Auswirkungen auf den Arbeitsmarkt haben. Anhand einer neuen Datenverknüpfung aus administrativer Daten und Umfragedaten zeigen wir: (i) Niedriglohnfirmen und Niedriglohnbeziehende finden vermehrt über Netzwerke oder die Bundesagentur für Arbeit zueinander, währendessen Hochlohnfirmen und Hochlohnbeziehende häufiger über Stellenanzeigen zusammenkommen. (ii) Dabei nutzen Firmen Stellenanzeigen vor allem bei der Abwerbung und Gewinnung von Hochlohnbeziehenden. Im Vergleich zu anderen Suchkanälen, werden Stellenanzeigen auch vermehrt von Beschäftigten beim Aufstieg auf der Karriereleiter genutzt. Um die Auswirkungen dieser Beobachtungen auf die aggregierte Beschäftigung, die Löhne und die Arbeitsmarktsortierung zu bewerten, schätzen wir strukturell ein Gleichgewichtsmodell, das sich durch Karriereleitern, zweiseitige Heterogenität, mehrere Suchkanäle und endogene Einstellungsintensität auszeichnet. Die Schätzung zeigt, dass Netzwerke der kosteneffizienteste Kanal sind, der es Firmen ermöglicht, schnell einzustellen, aber auch Arbeitskräfte mit geringeren durchschnittlichen Fähigkeiten anzuziehen. Stellenanzeigen sind der kostspieligste Kanal, erleichtern die Einstellung von Arbeitnehmern/-innen mit höheren Fähigkeiten und sind für die Sortierung zwischen Beschäftigten und Firmen am wichtigsten. In kontrafaktischen Berechnungen zeigt sich, dass obwohl die Bundesagentur für Arbeit die geringste Einstellungswahrscheinlichkeit bietet, ihre hypothetische Abschaffung beträchtliche Folgen hätte. Die Gesamtbeschäftigung würde um mindestens 1,4 Prozent sinken und die Lohnungleichheit steigen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency (2023)
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Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos, Hermann Gartner & Leo Kaas (2023): Recruitment Policies, Job-Filling Rates and Matching Efficiency. In: Journal of the European Economic Association, Jg. 21, H. 6, S. 2413-2459., 2023-01-09. DOI:10.1093/jeea/jvad034
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"Recruitment intensity is important for the matching process in the labor market. Using unique linked survey-administrative data, we investigate the relationships between hiring and recruitment policies at the establishment level. Faster hiring goes along with higher search effort, lower hiring standards and more generous wages. We develop a directed search model that links these patterns to the employment adjustments of heterogenous firms. The model provides a novel structural decomposition of the matching function that we use to evaluate the relative importance of these recruitment policies at the aggregate level. The calibrated model shows that hiring standards play an important role in explaining differences in matching efficiency across labor markets defined as region/skill cross products and for the impact of labor market policy, whereas search effort and wage policies play only a minor role." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Active and passive labor-market policies: the outlook from the Beveridge curve (2023)
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Destefanis, Sergio, Matteo Fragetta & Nazzareno Ruggiero (2023): Active and passive labor-market policies: the outlook from the Beveridge curve. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 55, H. 55, S. 6538-6550. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2022.2159010
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"Following a panel ARDL approach, we appraise the impact of various indicators of active and passive labor-market policies within the framework of the Beveridge curve across fourteen OECD countries from 1985 to 2013, controlling for other factors, both institutional (tax wedge) and structural (technological progress, globalization). We embed the role of these variables within the specification of the Beveridge curve, finding that the generosity of unemployment benefits has a detrimental impact on labor-market matching, with the duration of benefits and the strictness of the rules pertaining to the deployment of benefits taking a key role in driving this result. Among active labor-market policies, employment incentives and especially training have a favourable effect on matching. There is evidence of a virtuous interaction between active and passive policies. A significantly detrimental role emerges for the tax wedge. These results are consistent across various specifications, and structural relationships are stable throughout the 2008–2013 period." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Inefficient Labor Market Sorting (2023)
Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R.;Zitatform
Eckel, Carsten & Stephen R. Yeaple (2023): Inefficient Labor Market Sorting. (Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CCR TRR 190 437), München ; Berlin, 47 S.
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"A growing empirical literature attributes much of the productivity advantages of large, "superstar" firms to their adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for the incomplete adoption of these "structured management practices" and their welfare implications are not well understood. This paper provides a positive and normative analysis of these issues in a theoretical framework in which structured management practices induce sorting of talent across firms. Incomplete adoption arises because worker talent is in limited supply. In equilibrium there is excessive adoption of structured management practices and too much sorting of talented workers into large firms. In this second-best environment, policy changes that favor large firms, such as trade liberalization, have the potential to lower welfare." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search (2023)
Kiss, Andrea; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Hensel, Lukas;Zitatform
Kiss, Andrea, Robert Garlick, Kate Orkin & Lukas Hensel (2023): Jobseekers’ Beliefs about Comparative Advantage and (Mis)Directed Search. (Upjohn Institute working paper 388), Kalamazoo, Mich., 99 S. DOI:10.17848/wp23-388
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"Worker sorting into tasks and occupations has long been recognized as an important feature of labor markets. But this sorting may be inefficient if jobseekers have inaccurate beliefs about their skills and therefore apply to jobs that do not match their skills. To test this idea, we measure young South African jobseekers’ communication and numeracy skills and their beliefs about their skill levels. Many jobseekers believe they are better at the skill in which they score lower, relative to other jobseekers. These beliefs predict the skill requirements of jobs where they apply. In two field experiments, giving jobseekers their skill assessment results shifts their beliefs toward their assessment results. It also redirects their search toward jobs that value the skill in which they score relatively higher—using measures from administrative, incentivized task, and survey data—but does not increase total search effort. It also raises earnings and job quality, consistent with inefficient sorting due to limited information." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Ranking and search effort in matching (2023)
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Lee, Joonbae & Hanna Wang (2023): Ranking and search effort in matching. In: Economic Theory, Jg. 75, H. 1, S. 113-136. DOI:10.1007/s00199-021-01391-4
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"This paper studies the relationship between search effort and workers’ ranking by employers. In order to do so, we propose a matching model in which employers have common preferences over a continuum of heterogeneous workers who choose a number of applications to send out. We show that in equilibrium, the relationship is hump-shaped for sufficiently high vacancy-to-worker ratios, that is, highly-ranked and lowly-ranked workers send out fewer applications than workers of mid-range rank. This arises due to two opposing forces driving the incentives of applicants. Increasing the number of applications acts as insurance against unemployment, but is less effective when the probability of success for each application is low. This mechanism exacerbates the negative employment outcomes of low-rank workers—hence, in contrast to the market equilibrium, in the social planner’s solution, the number of applications monotonically decrease in rank." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The Macroeconomics of Skills Mismatch in the Presence of Emigration (2023)
Liontos, George; Vella, Eugenia; Mavrigiannakis, Konstantinos;Zitatform
Liontos, George, Konstantinos Mavrigiannakis & Eugenia Vella (2023): The Macroeconomics of Skills Mismatch in the Presence of Emigration. (Working paper series / Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of International and European Economic Studies 2023-14), Athen, 52 S.
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"Employment in mismatch (low-skill) jobs is a potential factor in the emigration of highly qualified workers. At the same time, high-skilled emigration and emigration of mismatch workers can free up positions for stayers. In bad times, it could also amplify demand losses and the unemployment spell, which in turn affects the mismatch rate. In this paper, we investigate the link between vertical skills mismatch and emigration of both non-mismatch and mismatch workers in a DSGE model. The model features also skill and wealth heterogeneous households, capital-skill complementarity (CSC) and labor frictions. We find that an adverse productivity shock reduces investment and primarily hurts the high-skilled who react by turning to both jobs abroad and mismatch jobs in the domestic labor market. A negative shock to government spending crowds-in investment and primarily hurts the low-skilled who thus turn to jobs abroad. Following the fiscal cut, the high-skilled instead reduce their search for mismatch employment and later they also reduce their search for jobs abroad." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs (2023)
Minni, Virginia;Zitatform
Minni, Virginia (2023): Making the invisible hand visible: Managers and the allocation of workers to jobs. (CEP discussion paper / Centre for Economic Performance 1948), London, 80 S.
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"Why do managers matter for firm performance? This paper provides evidence of the critical role of managers in matching workers to jobs within the firm using the universe of personnel records from a large multinational firm. The data covers 200,000 white-collar workers and 30,000 managers over 10 years in 100 countries. I identify good managers as the top 30% by their speed of promotion and leverage exogenous variation induced by the rotation of managers across teams. I find that good managers cause workers to reallocate within the firm through lateral and vertical transfers. This leads to large and persistent gains in workers' career progression and productivity. Seven years after the manager transition, workers earn 30% more and perform better on objective performance measures. In terms of aggregate firm productivity, doubling the share of good managers would increase output per worker by 61% at the establishment level. My results imply that the visible hands of managers match workers' specific skills to specialized jobs, leading to an improvement in the productivity of existing workers that outlasts the managers' time at the firm." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Why Personal Ties (Still) Matter: Referrals and Congestion (2023)
Mylius, F.;Zitatform
Mylius, F. (2023): Why Personal Ties (Still) Matter: Referrals and Congestion. (Cambridge working papers in economics 2356), Cambridge, 21 S.
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"The internet has reduced search costs significantly, making it much easier to apply for a large number of jobs. In spite of that, the share of jobs found through personal contacts has remained stable over the past decades. My theoretical framework explores a new channel that makes referred candidates favorable for firms: a higher likelihood to accept a job offer. This trait becomes particularly advantageous whenever firms face large uncertainty over whether their candidates would accept their job offer. As we see, if search barriers vanish and workers apply to more firms, a referred candidate expects to face more competitors. On the other hand, with more applications being sent out, workers are, on average, less interested in each firm they apply to, which makes referred candidates stand out more. This means the chances of getting a job offer through a referral can increase if competing workers send out more applications." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Labour market tightness and matching efficiency in different labour market segments – do differences in education and occupation matter? (2023)
Obadić, Alka; Viljevac, Viktor;Zitatform
Obadić, Alka & Viktor Viljevac (2023): Labour market tightness and matching efficiency in different labour market segments – do differences in education and occupation matter? (EFZG working paper series 2303), Zagreb, 47 S.
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"This paper analyses the existing educational and occupational structures of several EU member countries and their alignment with the needs of the labour market. Such a situation may indicate a structural mismatch in labour market in which the mismatch between the skills taught in schools and universities and the skills needed in the workplace appears. To evaluate this mismatch, the paper investigates the matching needs of employers and unemployed job seekers by disaggregating the registered employment office data by education and occupation groups in selected EU countries separately. More educated workers, as well as workers in more complex and better-paid occupations, might fare better when it comes to the aggregate labour market trends. For example, economic downturns and increases in unemployment might be felt more heavily by workers with lower education and those who work in professions requiring fewer skills. In this paper, we analyse the data for a selected group of countries (Austria, Croatia, Estonia, Slovenia, and Spain) from 2010 till 2022, using the Beveridge curves and estimate the labour market tightness and matching efficiency for different education and occupation groups. Our results show that differences in education levels and occupation result in relatively small deviations from aggregate trends in the labour market. Aggregate labour market trends therefore strongly impact all groups in the labour market, whether the market is segmented by education levels or by occupation. In other words, both the improvements in the labour market conditions and the worsening of labour market conditions have similar effects across different labour market segments." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Population size and the job matching of college graduates (2023)
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Pominova, Mariya & Todd Gabe (2023): Population size and the job matching of college graduates. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 30, H. 20, S. 2994-2997. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2022.2117774
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"This paper examines the relationship between a region’s population size and the match of college-educated workers to jobs that require a degree. Results show a positive relationship between degree match and county population size in the United States, with a 100,000-person increase in population associated with a 1.3-percentage point increase in the likelihood of a match. The analysis uses a person’s grade point average in college to account for the potential sorting of higher-skilled workers into larger urban areas and the dataset has individuals across a wide range of regions from small rural areas to big cities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Measuring skill gaps in firms: the PIAAC Employer Module (2023)
Quintini, Glenda; Marcolin, Luca;Zitatform
Quintini, Glenda & Luca Marcolin (2023): Measuring skill gaps in firms: the PIAAC Employer Module. (OECD social, employment and migration working papers 292), Paris, 42 S.
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"This paper introduces the Employer Module of the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), a new OECD survey designed to measure the imbalance between the supply of and demand for the skills needed in the workplace (skill gaps), and how this relates to companies' business strategy and hiring, training and human resource practices. The document first describes the added value of collecting such data, and the different streams of economic research it can contribute to. It then shows how the Module can complement worker-level information on skill imbalances collected in the OECD Survey of Adult Skills. Lastly, it presents the key technical features of the survey, including the questionnaire's conceptual development, the units of observation and coverage, the mode of administration, and the requirements for data cleaning and validation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Applications of maximum matching by using bipolar fuzzy incidence graphs (2023)
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Rehman, Fahad Ur, Tabasam Rashid & Muhammad Tanveer Hussain (2023): Applications of maximum matching by using bipolar fuzzy incidence graphs. In: PLoS ONE, Jg. 18. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0285603
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"The extension of bipolar fuzzy graph is bipolar fuzzy incidence graph (BFIG) which gives the information regarding the effect of vertices on the edges. In this paper, the concept of matching in bipartite BFIG and also for BFIG is introduced. Some results and theorems of fuzzy graphs are also extended in BFIGs. The number of operations in BFIGs such as augmenting paths, matching principal numbers, relation between these principal numbers and maximum matching principal numbers are being investigated which are helpful in the selection of maximum most allied applicants for the job and also to get the maximum outcome with minimum loss (due to any controversial issues among the employees of a company). Some characteristics of maximum matching principal numbers in BFIG are explained which are helpful for solving the vertex and incidence pair fuzzy maximization problems. Lastly, obtained maximum matching principal numbers by using the matching concept to prove its applicability and effectiveness for the applications in bipartite BFIG and also for the BFIG." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Wage-Specific Search Intensity (2023)
Rendon, Silvio;Zitatform
Rendon, Silvio (2023): Wage-Specific Search Intensity. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 15971), Bonn, 32 S.
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"I propose a model in which agents decide on job search intensity for each possible wage, unlike the usual setup of constant search intensity over wage draws. The proposed framework entails efficiency gains in that agents do not waste effort to searching for low paying unacceptable jobs or less offered high paying jobs. The proposed framework generates accepted wages distributions that differ substantially from the truncated distributions stemming from the usual setup. These different empirical implications are exploited for building two nonparametric tests, which reject constant search intensity over wages, using NLSY97 data. I further estimate the identifiable structural parameters of the two models resulting in better fit for the wage-specific setup. I quantify the increased effectiveness of wage-specific search in more total search intensity, faster transitions to the upper tail of the wage distribution, and higher wages, in particular, more than 25% increase in accepted wages after unemployment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Consumption Commitments and Unemployment Insurance (2023)
Segovia, Javier López;Zitatform
Segovia, Javier López (2023): Consumption Commitments and Unemployment Insurance. (CRC TR 224 discussion paper series / EPoS Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 458), Bonn, 49 S.
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"Households allocate around 40% of their budget to goods and services that are difficult to adjust, such as rents, mortgages, or mobile plans, which are called “commitments”. Only about 11% of households adjust the consumption of these goods every quarter. Commitments imply monthly payments that are hard to avoid and make employment and income fluctuations more costly. This paper analyzes the role of unemployment insurance in the presence of commitments using a heterogeneous agents search model with incomplete markets and unemployment shocks. The model is calibrated to the US data and matches key features of the US labor market. Using this framework, we show that the existence of commitment goods amplifies the effects of unemployment insurance on search effort and unemployment duration. Commitments also induce households to build larger precautionary savings. Morover, we show that welfare gains from elimating UI increase from 3.4% to 4.2% when commitments are considered. The optimal replacement rate is 57% in the benchmark economy, higher than the current US policy (50%)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Pre-existing company contacts and premature termination of apprenticeship training in Germany (2023)
Weißmann, Markus; Roth, Tobias;Zitatform
Weißmann, Markus & Tobias Roth (2023): Pre-existing company contacts and premature termination of apprenticeship training in Germany. In: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Jg. 87. DOI:10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100839
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"Using longitudinal data from Starting Cohort 4 of the German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we examined whether pre-existing strong ties and weak ties in the training company are associated with the risk of premature termination of apprenticeship training in Germany. This is highly relevant for the literature on social capital in the labor market since so far little is known about the role of social contacts for the turnover propensity of labor market entrants. By examining a potentially important factor for a successful labor market integration, our research also adds to both the school-to-work and the social stratification literature. Our empirical results are only partly consistent with our theoretically derived expectations. While contrary to our expectations, we found no association between strong ties and termination probability, weak ties were, as expected, associated with a lower probability of premature training termination among those apprentices who were trained in their desired occupation. Our main results, combined with several robustness checks, let us assume that this is due to better matched training situations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2024 Elsevier) ((en))
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Who Set Your Wage? (2022)
Card, David;Zitatform
Card, David (2022): Who Set Your Wage? In: The American economic review, Jg. 112, H. 4, S. 1075-1090. DOI:10.1257/aer.112.4.1075
Abstract
"I discuss the recent literature that has led to new interest in the idea of monopsonistic wage setting. Building on advances in search theory and in models of differentiated products, researchers have used a number of different strategies to identify the elasticity of firm-specific labor supply. A growing consensus is that firms have some wage-setting power, though many questions remain about the sources of that power." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Who Set Your Wage? (2022)
Card, David;Zitatform
Card, David (2022): Who Set Your Wage? (NBER working paper 29683), Cambridge, Mass, 30 S. DOI:10.3386/w29683
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"I discuss the recent literature that has led to new interest in the idea of monopsonistic wage setting. Building on advances in search theory and in models of differentiated products, researchers have used a number of different strategies to identify the elasticity of firm-specific labor supply. A growing consensus is that firms have some wage-setting power, though many questions remain about the sources of that power." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality (2022)
Coraggio, Luca; Scognamiglio, Annalisa; Tåg, Joacim; Pagano, Marco;Zitatform
Coraggio, Luca, Marco Pagano, Annalisa Scognamiglio & Joacim Tåg (2022): JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality. (IFN working paper / Research Institute of Industrial Economic 1427), Stockholm, 37 S.
Abstract
"Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer-employee administrative data with machine learning techniques. The proposed measure is positively and significantly associated with labor earnings over workers' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading to an improvement in the quality and experience of management. JAQ can be constructed for any employer-employee data including workers' occupations, and used to explore the effect of corporate restructuring on workers' allocation and careers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany (2022)
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DellaVigna, Stefano, Jörg Heining, Johannes F. Schmieder & Simon Trenkle (2022): Evidence on Job Search Models from a Survey of Unemployed Workers in Germany. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Jg. 137, H. 2, S. 1181-1232., 2021-09-11. DOI:10.1093/qje/qjab039
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"Die Wahrscheinlichkeit eine neue Beschäftigung zu finden nimmt für Bezieher von Leistungen aus der Arbeitslosenversicherung in den ersten Monaten der Arbeitslosigkeit zunächst ab, steigt dann aber zum Ende der Bezugsdauer wieder an, um danach erneut abzuflachen. Zahlreiche theoretische Ansätze wurden bisher vorgeschlagen, um dieses Muster zu erklären, jedoch ist dies kaum möglich sofern dafür nur Daten über die Tatsache der Arbeitsaufnahme an sich herangezogen werden. Um die zugrundeliegenden Mechanismen besser zu verstehen, haben wir mittels SMS-Kurznachrichten eine groß angelegte Befragung von Arbeitslosen durchgeführt. Insgesamt wurden über 6.800 Leistungsbezieher zweimal pro Woche über jeweils vier Monate über den zeitlichen Aufwand bei der Suche nach einem neuen Arbeitsplatz befragt. Aufgrund der resultierenden Panelstruktur war es uns nun möglich Erkenntnisse zu sammeln, wie sich dieser zeitliche Aufwand auf individueller Ebene über die Dauer der Arbeitslosigkeit hinweg entwickelt. Unsere drei Hauptergebnisse lauten: 1) Der Suchaufwand verläuft flach zu Beginn der Arbeitslosigkeit. 2) Weiter steigt der Suchaufwand zum Ende der Bezugsdauer an, nimmt im Anschluss daran jedoch wieder ab. 3) Es gibt keine Anzeichen dafür, dass Leistungsbezieher die Aufnahme einer neuen Beschäftigung bewusst an das Ende der Bezugsdauer verzögern. Insbesondere das zweite und das dritte dieser Ergebnisse lassen sich kaum mit den Standardmodellen zur Arbeitssuche basierend auf unbeobachteter Heterogenität bzw. so genannten Storable Offer Modellen erklären. Dagegen können die genannten Ergebnisse gut mittels eines Suchmodells mit Reference Dependence erklärt werden." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Wie gut passen Bewerber und Stellen zusammen?: Eine Analyse der Qualität neu zustande gekommener Arbeitsverhältnisse (Matches) in ausgewählten Arbeitssegmenten (2022)
Dellkamm, Rabea; Stettes, Oliver; Möckel, Kathrin; Schäfer, Holger;Zitatform
Dellkamm, Rabea, Kathrin Möckel, Holger Schäfer & Oliver Stettes (2022): Wie gut passen Bewerber und Stellen zusammen? Eine Analyse der Qualität neu zustande gekommener Arbeitsverhältnisse (Matches) in ausgewählten Arbeitssegmenten. (IW-Report / Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Köln 2022,47), Köln, 24 S.
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"Die empirische Arbeitsmarktforschung ist derzeit nur eingeschränkt in der Lage, die Qualität der Ausgleichprozesse am Arbeitsmarkt anhand der Merkmale der neu zustande gekommenen Beschäftigungsverhältnisse zu beschreiben. Die Analyse von Stellenanzeigen kann zwar detaillierte Einblicke über konkrete Stellenanforderungen geben, ob diese aber auch von den späteren Stelleninhabern erfüllt werden, bleibt bei einer derartigen Analyse ungeklärt. Auswertungen der IAB-Stellenerhebung stehen unter dem Vorbehalt, dass sie nur die letzte neu besetzte Vakanz in den Blick nehmen können. Die vorliegende Studie auf Basis eines speziell für diese Zwecke bereitgestellten Datensatzes durch den Personaldienstleister Hays, der detaillierte Informationen sowohl über Stellenanforderungen als auch die Kompetenzprofile der Beschäftigten in neu zustande gekommenen Arbeitsverhältnissen enthält, zeigt die Potenziale von Analysen auf, die die Qualität einer großen Anzahl von Matching-Prozessen beschreiben wollen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Applicant Reactions to Digital Selection Methods: A Signaling Perspective on Innovativeness and Procedural Justice (2022)
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Folger, Nicholas, Prisca Brosi, Jutta Stumpf-Wollersheim & Isabell M. Welpe (2022): Applicant Reactions to Digital Selection Methods. A Signaling Perspective on Innovativeness and Procedural Justice. In: Journal of Business and Psychology, Jg. 37, H. 4, S. 735-757. DOI:10.1007/s10869-021-09770-3
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"Research has shown that the use of digital technologies in the personnel selection process can have both positive and negative effects on applicants’ attraction to an organization. We explain this contradiction by specifying its underlying mechanisms. Drawing on signaling theory, we build a conceptual model that applies two different theoretical lenses (instrumental-symbolic framework and justice theory) to suggest that perceptions of innovativeness and procedural justice explain the relationship between an organization’s use of digital selection methods and employer attractiveness perceptions. We test our model by utilizing two studies, namely one experimental vignette study among potential applicants (N = 475) and one retrospective field study among actual job applicants (N = 335). With the exception of the assessment stage in Study 1, the positive indirect effects found in both studies indicated that applicants perceive digital selection methods to be more innovative. While Study 1 also revealed a negative indirect effect, with potential applicants further perceiving digital selection methods as less fair than less digitalized methods in the interview stage, this effect was not significant for actual job applicants in Study 2. We discuss theoretical implications for the applicant reactions literature and offer recommendations for human resource managers to make use of positive signaling effects while reducing potential negative signaling effects linked to the use of digital selection methods." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Hiring in border regions: experimental and qualitative evidence from a recruiter survey in Luxembourg (2022)
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Gutfleisch, Tamara & Robin Samuel (2022): Hiring in border regions: experimental and qualitative evidence from a recruiter survey in Luxembourg. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 56. DOI:10.1186/s12651-022-00327-2
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"Firms in border regions typically deal with heterogeneous applicant pools that include both (foreign) domestic workers and cross-border commuters. However, we know little about recruiters’ workforce needs and hiring practices in cross-border labour markets. Based on a survey of real recruiters in Luxembourg, this study presents experimental and qualitative findings on the role of country of residence in recruiters’ hiring intentions against foreigners. Luxembourg presents a rarely studied but highly relevant case for hiring practices owing to a combination of a strong economy, strict labour market regulations, and a transnational workforce. Drawing on data from a factorial survey experiment, we found no discrimination against Portuguese and French applicants living in Luxembourg. Yet, (highly skilled) cross-border workers from France and Germany faced disadvantages regarding recruiters’ hiring intentions. However, differences in effect sizes between foreigners and cross-border workers were small and not statistically significant. When further asked about the potential challenges of recruiting in Luxembourg’s cross-border labour market, respondents expressed concerns about flexibility, poor social fit, and cultural differences in hiring foreign and cross-border employees. Overall, our study provides further points of reference for studies on hiring intentions in cross-border labour markets across Europe." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Assortative labor matching, city size, and the education level of workers (2022)
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Leknes, Stefan, Jørn Rattsø & Hildegunn E. Stokke (2022): Assortative labor matching, city size, and the education level of workers. In: Regional Science and Urban Economics, Jg. 96. DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2022.103806
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"We investigate the heterogeneity of assortative labor matching with respect to geography, skills, and tasks. Our contribution is to separate plant quality by education level and occupation tasks using the AKM-model. We introduce a geology-related instrument to analyze the city effect and address limited mobility bias. Using rich administrative worker-plant dataset for Norway, we show that matching of the college educated have a strong city effect. The IV estimates indicate that a doubling of city size increases the correlation between worker and plant quality by 9 percentage points. A wage decomposition shows that matching accounts for 22% of the urban wage premium adjusted for sorting. In terms of occupations, better matching in cities is observed only for non-routine abstract tasks." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))
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Gender-Specific Application Behavior, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap (2022)
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Lochner, Benjamin & Christian Merkl (2022): Gender-Specific Application Behavior, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap. (LASER discussion papers 139), Erlangen, 55 S.
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"In diesem Papier untersuchen wir das geschlechterspezifische Bewerbungs- und Einstellungsverhalten sowie deren Implikationen für die Lohnlücke. Um die zugrundeliegenden Mechanismen besser zu verstehen, leiten wir aus einem zweistufigen Matching-Modell Implikationen her, die wir auf Basis der IAB-Stellenerhebung überprüfen. Es zeigt sich, dass die Muster in den Daten konsistent mit der Theorie von linearen und nichtlinearen Produktionsfunktionen sind. Wir dokumentieren, dass sich Frauen seltener bei Hochlohn- als bei Niedriglohnfirmen bewerben. Dahingegen finden wir keinen statistisch signifikanten Unterschied in der Einstellungswahrscheinlichkeit zwischen Männern und Frauen, wenn sie sich bei Hochlohnfirmen bewerben. Diese Muster sprechen gegen die Diskriminierungshypothese aus dem theoretischen Modell, lassen sich aber dadurch erklären, dass Jobs bei Hochlohnfirmen höhere arbeitgeberseitige Flexibilitätsanforderungen haben. Wir zeigen, dass der Anteil der männlichen Bewerber in verschiedenen, beobachtbaren Flexibilitätsanforderungen ansteigt. Wenn wir den Anteil der männlichen Bewerber in Mincer-Lohnregressionen als zusätzliche erklärende Variable für Flexibilitätsanforderungen aufnehmen, sinkt der Geschlechterunterschied im Einstellungslohn zwischen Männern und Frauen um etwa 50-60 Prozent. Frauen, die in Jobs eingestellt werden, bei denen sich viele Männer bewerben, verdienen signifikant mehr als Frauen, die in vergleichbaren Jobs eingestellt werden, bei denen sich ausschließlich Frauen bewerben. Wenn Frauen mit Kindern Jobs mit hohen Flexibilitätsanforderungen annehmen, müssen sie dahingegen große Lohneinbußen im Vergleich zu Männern hinnehmen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Economic conditions, task shares, and overqualification (2022)
Summerfield, Fraser;Zitatform
Summerfield, Fraser (2022): Economic conditions, task shares, and overqualification. In: Oxford economic papers, Jg. 74, H. 1, S. 40-61. DOI:10.1093/oep/gpab002
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"This article demonstrates that economic conditions affect job match quality by influencing the task shares of available jobs. Cognitive (reasoning/communication) and physical (sensory/coordination) task shares and education-based overqualification measures are generated from Canada’s Labour Force Survey, the Career Handbook, and the Occupational Information Network database. In unfavourable labour markets, cognitive task intensity decreases and physical task intensity rises. The task content of newly formed jobs is then shown to be an important empirical determinant of overqualification. A calibrated search model that accounts for these findings quantifies the costs of increased overqualification. Each percentage point increase in unemployment raises overqualification by 5.8 percentage points, partly due to changes in task shares. Economic output subsequently decreases by about 0.6%." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Nonlinear Search and Matching Explained (2021)
Bernstein, Joshua; Throckmorton, Nathaniel; Richter, Alexander W.;Zitatform
Bernstein, Joshua, Alexander W. Richter & Nathaniel Throckmorton (2021): Nonlinear Search and Matching Explained. (Working paper / Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Research Department 2106), Dallas, TX, 28 S. DOI:10.24149/wp2106
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"Competing explanations for the sources of nonlinearity in search and matching models indicate that they are not fully understood. This paper derives an analytical solution to a textbook model that highlights the mechanisms that generate nonlinearity and quantifies their contributions. Procyclical variation in the matching elasticity creates nonlinearity in the job finding rate, which interacts with the law of motion for unemployment. These results show the matching function choice is not innocuous. Quantitatively, the Den Haan et al. (2000) matching function more than doubles the skewness of unemployment and welfare cost of business cycles, compared to the Cobb-Douglas specification." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employer Search Behavior: Reasons for Internal Hiring (2021)
Bertheau, Antoine;Zitatform
Bertheau, Antoine (2021): Employer Search Behavior: Reasons for Internal Hiring. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 73. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102064
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"This article studies reasons for internal hiring, i.e., re-assigning or promoting an employee instead of recruiting an external candidate. We exploit a representative survey of establishments covering all European Union countries to measure employers' search for internal candidates. Internal search is a widespread practice: 66% of establishments typically search internally. The accumulation of specific skills and the provision of incentives for employees are the main advantages of hiring internally in the theoretical literature. Ordered probit estimates show that on-the-job training and internal search are positively associated. On the contrary, incentive schemes such as variable pay are not associated with employer search. These results help to assess competing theories, and in particular, suggest that specific human capital is an important driver of internal hiring. Finally, we uncover two interesting facts that need further research: internal hiring is less likely in service firms and in non-competitive product markets." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))
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A new approach to skills mismatch (2021)
Brun-Schammé, Amandine; Rey, Martin;Zitatform
Brun-Schammé, Amandine & Martin Rey (2021): A new approach to skills mismatch. (OECD productivity working papers 24), Paris, 28 S. DOI:10.1787/e9563c2a-en
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"Skills mismatch - the sub-optimal use of an individual's skills in their occupation - can be a source of dissatisfaction for workers and a brake for productivity growth. In our view, a difference in the level of skills within an occupation is not sufficient to infer that a skills mismatch exists. Since skills-mismatch is the result of a disparity between the supply and demand of labour, the quantifying of skills-mismatch must therefore be based on the mechanisms involved in this disparity. We propose to include in our measurement the level of education and field of study, which are key markers of an individual's skill level in the labour market. This makes it possible to identify, among individuals whose skill level differs from others within an occupation, those whose training profile can (or cannot) explain this situation. Through using the OECD PIAAC 2012 survey, this paper first identifies with data for France, individuals who present an apparent skills mismatch according to the framework proposed. Following an international comparison of “apparent skills mismatch rates”, we conclude this study by observing how the different groups identified differ in terms of how they perceive their employment situation as well as their individual characteristics." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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"Are you in the right job?" Human Capital Mismatch in the UK (2021)
Galanakis, Yannis;Zitatform
Galanakis, Yannis (2021): "Are you in the right job?" Human Capital Mismatch in the UK. (GLO discussion paper / Global Labor Organization 976), Essen, 58 S.
Abstract
"This paper examines a problem of worker misallocation into jobs. A theoretical model, allowing for heterogeneous workers and firms, shows that job search frictions generate mismatch between employees and employers. In the empirical analysis, the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), the UK household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) and British Cohort Study 1970 (BCS70) data are used to measure the incidence of mismatch, how it changes over time and whether it can be explained by unobserved ability. Results show that (i) the incidence of mismatch increases after the Great Recession. (ii) Individual transitions to/from matching take place due to workers' occupational mobility and over-time skills development. (iii) Employees can find better jobs or their mobility occurs earlier than the aggregate change of skills. (iv) Controlling for individual heterogeneity, measured by cognitive and non-cognitive skill test scores throughout childhood, does not decrease the incidence of mismatch. This suggests that unobserved productivity does not generate mismatch in the labour market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Complementary jobs and optimal matching (2021)
Gebauer, Markus;Zitatform
Gebauer, Markus (2021): Complementary jobs and optimal matching. In: Labour, Jg. 35, H. 3, S. 291-310. DOI:10.1111/labr.12204
Abstract
"This paper introduces strong complementarities in labour into an otherwise classical Diamond–Mortensen–Pissarides search model. Specifically, two workers are required to perform a task. The assumption of Nash bargaining is maintained to represent the Hosios condition transparently. We show that this setup leads to additional externalities that require more than a Hosios-style condition to be met. The surplus must be shared between the workers so that the employer internalizes additional externalities. This makes implementing efficiency even more challenging." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires? (2021)
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Gürtzgen, Nicole, Benjamin Lochner, Laura Pohlan & Gerard J. van den Berg (2021): Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires? In: Labour Economics, Jg. 70, S. 101981., 2021-03-16. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101981
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"Die Studie untersucht den Effekt der Expansion des Breitbandinternets auf die Matchqualität neu eingestellter Personen. Hierzu werden Daten zur regionalen Internetverfügbarkeit mit administrativen Individualdaten und Vakanzdaten für den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt kombiniert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass eine Ausweitung der Breitbandinternet-Verfügbarkeit keinen größeren Einfluss auf die Stabilität und Entlohnung neu begonnener Beschäftigungsverhältnisse hat. Diese Resultate werden auf Basis von Analysen mit Vakanzdaten bestätigt. Diese Daten erlauben einen expliziten Vergleich der Matchqualität von Personen, die online rekrutiert wurden, mit der Matchqualität von Personen, die über andere Rekrutierungskanäle eingestellt wurden. Weiterhin zeigen die Ergebnisse, dass Online-Rekrutierung nicht nur die Anzahl der Bewerbungen und den Anteil ungeeigneter Bewerbungen erhöht, sondern ebenfalls zu einer höheren Anzahl von Vakanzen führt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Wage bargaining in a matching market: Experimental evidence (2021)
Korenok, Oleg; Munro, David;Zitatform
Korenok, Oleg & David Munro (2021): Wage bargaining in a matching market: Experimental evidence. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 73. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.102078
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"Wage negotiation plays a central role in the dynamics of search and matching models. We explore the theoretical wage predictions of the canonical search and matching model of Diamond (1982) in laboratory bargaining experiments. Overall, wages in the experiment are less responsive to changes in the market conditions than theory predicts. Wages respond to changes in unemployment insurance in the correct direction, yet the size of the response is about half of what theory predicts. On the other hand, contrary to theory, wages are unresponsive to changes in the level of unemployment. We also find that wages of new matches are more sensitive than wages of on-going matches, and that the duration of unemployment influences wages in certain settings." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2022 Elsevier) ((en))
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The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction (2021)
Kuhn, Moritz; Qiu, Xincheng; Manovskii, Iourii;Zitatform
Kuhn, Moritz, Iourii Manovskii & Xincheng Qiu (2021): The Geography of Job Creation and Job Destruction. (ECONtribute discussion paper 122), Köln ; Bonn, 45, A-20 S.
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"Spatial differences in labor market performance are large and highly persistent. Using data from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job finding, and job filling within each country. This robust set of facts guides and disciplines the development of a theory of local labor market performance. We find that a spatial version of a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model with endogenous separations and on-the-job search quantitatively accounts for all the documented empirical regularities. The model also quantitatively rationalizes why differences in job-separation rates have primary importance in inducing differences in unemployment across space while changes in the job-finding rate are the main driver in unemployment fluctuations over the business cycle." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Behavior (2021)
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Marinescu, Ioana & Daphne Skandalis (2021): Unemployment Insurance and Job Search Behavior. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Jg. 136, H. 2, S. 887-931. DOI:10.1093/qje/qjaa037
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"How does unemployment insurance (UI) affect unemployed workers’ search behavior? Search models predict that until benefit exhaustion, UI depresses job search effort and increases reservation wages. Over an unemployment spell, search effort should increase up to benefit exhaustion and stay high thereafter. Meanwhile, reservation wages should decrease up to benefit exhaustion and stay low thereafter. To test these predictions, we link administrative registers to data on job search behavior from a major online job search platform in France. We follow over 400,000 workers, as long as they remain unemployed. We analyze the changes in search behavior around benefits exhaustion and take two steps to isolate the individual response to unemployment benefits. First, our longitudinal data allows us to correct for changes in sample composition over the spell. Second, we exploit data on workers eligible for 12–24 months of UI as well as workers ineligible for UI, to control for behavior changes over the unemployment spell that are independent of UI. Our results confirm the predictions of search models. We find that search effort (the number of job applications) increases by at least 50% during the year preceding benefits exhaustion and remains high thereafter. The target monthly wage decreases by at least 2.4% during the year preceding benefits exhaustion and remains low thereafter. In addition, we provide evidence for duration dependence: workers decrease the wage they target by 1.5% over each year of unemployment, irrespective of their UI status." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Firm productivity and immigrant-native earnings disparity (2021)
Åslund, Olof; Bratu, Cristina; Thoresson, Anna; Lombardi, Stefano;Zitatform
Åslund, Olof, Cristina Bratu, Stefano Lombardi & Anna Thoresson (2021): Firm productivity and immigrant-native earnings disparity. (CReAM discussion paper 2021,37), London, 35 S.
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"We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using population-wide matched employer-employee data from Sweden. We find substantial earnings returns to working in firms with higher persistent productivity, with greater gains for immigrants from non-Western countries. Moreover, the pass-through of within-firm productivity variation to earnings is stronger for immigrants in low-productive, immigrant-dense firms. But immigrant workers are underrepresented in high-productive firms and less likely to move up the productivity distribution. Thus, sorting into less productive firms decreases earnings in poor-performing immigrant groups that would gain the most from working in high-productive firms" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How broadband internet affects labor market matching (2020)
Bhuller, Manudeep; Vigtel, Trond C.; Kostøl, Andreas R.;Zitatform
Bhuller, Manudeep, Andreas R. Kostøl & Trond C. Vigtel (2020): How broadband internet affects labor market matching. (IZA discussion paper 12895), Bonn, 63 S.
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"How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters, vacancies and job seekers. We document that broadband expansions increased online vacancy-postings and lowered the average duration of a vacancy and the share of establishments with unfilled vacancies. These changes led to higher job-finding rates and starting wages and more stable employment relationships after an unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Testing the independence of job arrival rates and wage offers (2020)
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Braun, Christine, Bryan Engelhardt, Benjamin Griffy & Peter Rupert (2020): Testing the independence of job arrival rates and wage offers. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 63. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101804
Abstract
"Is the arrival rate of a job independent of the wage that it pays? We answer this question by testing whether unemployment insurance alters the job finding rate differentially across the wage distribution. To do this, we use a Mixed Proportional Hazard Competing Risk Model in which we classify quantiles of the wage distribution as competing risks faced by searching unemployed workers. Allowing for flexible unobserved heterogeneity across spells, we find that unemployment insurance increases the likelihood that a searcher matches to higher paying jobs relative to low or medium paying jobs, rejecting the notion that wage offers and job arrival rates are independent. We show that dependence between wages and job offer arrival rates explains 9% of the increase in the duration of unemployment associated with unemployment insurance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))