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Author : Samuel Danthine
Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneous Skills and Labor Market Performance by : Samuel Danthine
Download or read book Two-Sided Search, Heterogeneous Skills and Labor Market Performance written by Samuel Danthine. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joanne Tan
Release : 2023
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Book Synopsis Multidimensional Heterogeneity and Matching in a Frictional Labor Market - An Application to Polarization by : Joanne Tan
Download or read book Multidimensional Heterogeneity and Matching in a Frictional Labor Market - An Application to Polarization written by Joanne Tan. This book was released on 2023. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of technological change in labor market polarization has been subject to recent critique. This paper finds that changes in production technology played an important role in wage and job polarization in the US. It also demonstrates that such technological change is consistentwith the timing of labor market polarization in the US, including the stagnation of the 50/10 wage percentile ratio and the slowdown of employment growth in high-wage jobs from the 2000s. The paper does so using a model with two key ingredients: 1) directed search and 2) two-sided multi-dimensional heterogeneity. Estimation results show that the complementarity between cognitive skill and task increased while that between manual skill and task did not. The full model can fullyaccount for the rise and fall of the 90/50 and 50/10 wage percentile ratios respectively. It also generates 72.6 percent of the rise in employment share of high-paying jobs relative to middling jobs and 69 percent of the fall in employment share of middling jobs relative to low-paying jobs. The paper suggests that the stagnation of the 50/10 wage ratio may be due to rank-switching between workers across the wage distribution from the 2000s, while the slowdown of employment growthin high-wage jobs may result from the trade-off between the returns to applying for high-wage jobs and the likelihood of being hired.
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Release : 2014
Genre : Labor economics
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Book Synopsis Essays on Heterogeneity in Labor Markets by :
Download or read book Essays on Heterogeneity in Labor Markets written by . This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In my thesis, I study the effects of agents' heterogeneity on labor market outcomes, with particular focus on sorting, performance, wages, and inequality. Chapter one studies multidimensional matching between workers and jobs. Workers differ in manual and cognitive skills and sort into jobs that demand different combinations of these two skills. To study this multidimensional sorting, I develop a theoretical framework that generalizes the unidimensional notion of assortative matching. I derive the equilibrium in closed form and use this explicit solution to study biased technological change. The key finding is that an increase in worker-job complementarities in cognitive relative to manual inputs leads to more pronounced sorting and wage inequality across cognitive relative to manual skills. This can trigger wage polarization and boost aggregate wage dispersion. I then estimate the model for the US during the 1990s. I identify a significant increase in complementarities of cognitive inputs and in cognitive skill-bias in production. Counterfactual exercises suggest that these technology shifts can account for observed changes in worker-job sorting, wage polarization and a significant part of the increase in US wage dispersion. Chapter two develops a theory that links differences in men's and women's social networks to disparities in their labor market performance. We are motivated by our empirical finding that men's and women's networks differ. Men have a higher degree (more network links) than women, but women have a higher clustering coefficient (a woman's friends are also friends among each other). In our model, a worker with a higher degree has better access to information. In turn, a worker with a higher clustering coefficient faces more peer pressure. Both peer pressure and access to information can attenuate a team moral hazard problem in the work place. But whether peer pressure or access to information is more important depends on the work environment. We find that, in environments where uncertainty is high, information is crucial and, therefore, men outperform women / in line with findings from sectors with high earnings' uncertainty like the financial or film industry.
Author : Claudia Macaluso
Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis Skill Remoteness and the Economics of Local Labor Markets by : Claudia Macaluso
Download or read book Skill Remoteness and the Economics of Local Labor Markets written by Claudia Macaluso. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work quantifies the effects of discrepancies between local supply and demand for skills on wages, employment, and mobility rates of laid-off workers. I propose the concept of local skill remoteness to capture the degree of dissimilarity between the skill profiles of workers and jobs in a local labor market. I implement a measure of local skill remoteness at the occupation-city level, and find that higher skill remoteness at layoff is associated with lower re-employment rates and lower wages upon re-employment. Earnings differences between the top and bottom skill remoteness quartiles amount to a loss of 15% of the median worker's annual income and persist for at least two years. Skill-remote workers also have a higher probability of changing occupation, a lower probability of being re-employed at jobs with similar skill profiles, a higher propensity to migrate to another city and, conditional on migration, a higher likelihood of becoming less skill-remote. Motivated by this evidence, I develop a search-and-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity that provides a natural framework to interpret my skill remoteness measure. I use a calibrated version of the model to show that subsidies to on-the-job training lower the average skill remoteness of unemployed workers, thus the aggregate unemployment rate. The marginal benefit of such a policy is increasing in the level of unemployment.
Author : Solomon W. Polachek
Release : 2017-05-15
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets by : Solomon W. Polachek
Download or read book Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets written by Solomon W. Polachek. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains original research articles which analyze the linkages between education and skills and the causes and consequences of different types of skill mismatch. The volume yields new insights regarding overeducation, underskilling, graduate jobs, wages returns to skills, aggregate productivity, job complexity and skill development.
