scholarly journals BENEFIT DURATION, UNEMPLOYMENT DURATION AND JOB MATCH QUALITY: A REGRESSION-DISCONTINUITY APPROACH

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 604-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Caliendo ◽  
Konstantinos Tatsiramos ◽  
Arne Uhlendorff
Keyword(s):  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Job Match

scholarly journals Homeownership and Job-Match Quality in France

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carole Brunet ◽  
Nathalie Havet
Keyword(s):  
Match Quality ◽  
Job Match

scholarly journals Evaluating the Minimum-Wage Exemption of the Long-Term Unemployed in Germany

ILR Review ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 1095-1118
Author(s):  
Matthias Umkehrer ◽  
Philipp vom Berge
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Regression Discontinuity ◽  
Unemployment Duration ◽  
Regression Discontinuity Design ◽  
Micro Data ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Employment Stability

The authors evaluate the exemption of long-term unemployed job seekers from Germany’s national minimum wage. Using linked survey and administrative micro data, they rely on a regression discontinuity design to identify the effects of the policy by comparing hiring rates, employment stability, and entry wages around the administrative threshold between short-term and long-term unemployment. They find that the exemption is very rarely used and that the minimum wage binds irrespective of past unemployment duration. While the minimum wage led to a relative rise in entry wages for the long-term unemployed compared to the short-term unemployed, the authors do not detect a relative deterioration in their employment prospects.

scholarly journals Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1876-1914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Gertler ◽  
Christopher Huckfeldt ◽  
Antonella Trigari
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Marginal Cost ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Composition Effects ◽  
Reasonable Approximation ◽  
Job Match ◽  
Wage Cyclicality ◽  
Sticky Wages ◽  
New Hires

Abstract We revisit the issue of the high cyclicality of wages of new hires. We show that after controlling for composition effects likely involving procyclical upgrading of job match quality, the wages of new hires are no more cyclical than those of existing workers. The key implication is that the sluggish behaviour of wages for existing workers is a better guide to the cyclicality of the marginal cost of labour than is the high measured cyclicality of new hires wages unadjusted for composition effects. Key to our identification is distinguishing between new hires from unemployment versus those who are job changers. We argue that to a reasonable approximation, the wages of the former provide a composition-free estimate of the wage flexibility, while the same is not true for the latter. We then develop a quantitative general equilibrium model with sticky wages via staggered contracting, on-the-job search, and heterogeneous match quality, and show that it can account for both the panel data evidence and aggregate evidence on labour market volatility.

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