Local Labor Market Size and Qualification Mismatch
Title | Local Labor Market Size and Qualification Mismatch PDF eBook |
Author | Francesco Berlingieri |
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Release | 2017 |
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This paper investigates the effect of the size of the local labor market on skill mismatch. Using survey data for Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different field than the one they are trained for. Different empirical strategies are employed to account for the potential sorting of talented workers into more urbanized areas. Results on individuals never moving from the place of childhood and fixed-effects estimates obtaining identification through regional migrants suggest that sorting does not fully explain the existing differences in qualification mismatch across areas. This provides evidence of the existence of agglomeration economies through better matches. However, lower qualification mismatch in larger cities is found to explain only a small part of the urban wage premium.
Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets
Title | Skill Mismatch in Labor Markets PDF eBook |
Author | Solomon W. Polachek |
Publisher | Emerald Group Publishing |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1787143783 |
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.
Labor Market Conditions, Skill Requirements and Education Mismatch
Title | Labor Market Conditions, Skill Requirements and Education Mismatch PDF eBook |
Author | Fraser Summerfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Labor market |
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The Overeducated American
Title | The Overeducated American PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Barry Freeman |
Publisher | New York : Academic Press |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780122672521 |
Analyzes the 1970s downturn in the labor market for college-educated manpower, considers consequences for educational institutions, and explores policies for alleviating the situation. Bibliogs
Skills and Jobs Mismatches in Low- and Middle-income Countries
Title | Skills and Jobs Mismatches in Low- and Middle-income Countries PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Comyn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 193 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Developing countries |
ISBN | 9789221315612 |
Skill Mismatch in the Labour Market
Title | Skill Mismatch in the Labour Market PDF eBook |
Author | Yu Chen |
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Pages | 118 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | College graduates |
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This thesis contains three chapters on skill mismatch in the labour market. Chapter 1 provides a theory of ex ante skill mismatch, which we define as a situation where firms create jobs that workers search for and accept, even though they do not make the most productive use of their skills. The core idea is that, in the presence of asymmetric information about workers' outside options, the value of on the job search is higher for workers employed in such jobs. The theory provides new insights into the returns to education as well as the impact of on the job search on labour market mismatch. It also provides an explanation for the declining fortunes of educated American workers in recent decades. Chapter 2 studies a competitive search equilibrium with exogenous skill mismatch, where educated workers apply to routine jobs only if they face a high cost searching for cognitive jobs. The purpose is to examine whether a simple model with exogenous mismatch can explain the adverse labour market outcomes of educated workers. Under a negative shock to routine jobs, the model fails to generate a fall in the employment rate together with a decline in the job-to-job transition rate. Compared to endogenous mismatch equilibrium, an equilibrium with exogenous mismatch does not incorporate the trade-o between job finding rates and wages when unemployed workers choose to search in different job sectors. The comparison suggests that understanding the mechanism of skill mismatch is essential to understanding the labour market outcomes of educated workers. Chapter 3 shows that displacement of high-school workers from routine jobs can be understood as the labour-market response to an adverse selection problem. The adverse selection problem arises because employment contracts do not systematically discriminate against education, even though over-qualified ed workers are relatively more likely to quit routine jobs. The labour market equilibrium distorts the labour market outcomes of high school graduates by in efficiently increasing their wage at the expense of higher unemployment rate, in order to separate them from overqualified ed college graduates. In addition, the labour market response to the adverse selection problem creates a demand for post-secondary vocational education, which is valuable because it acts as an entry barrier that prevents college graduates from using routine jobs as stepping-stones towards better jobs.
Local labour market analysis
Title | Local labour market analysis PDF eBook |
Author | Great Britain: National Audit Office |
Publisher | The Stationery Office |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2007-11-14 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780102951240 |
This NAO report considers the patterns of work and worklessness in the United Kingdom, with an analysis on national, regional and local level. The report sets out a number of findings, including: that competition for vacancies is greater in some regions and local areas than others; the workless population have significantly lower qualifications than the work-in population, and in their last job, were more likely to have worked in lower skilled jobs; that the economically inactive have characteristics that are further removed from the employed than those of the unemployed; the relationship between qualifications, jobs and worklessness is not simple; disability has an impact on working and worklessness; black and minority ethnic groups have a lower employment rate, however the degree of the employment gap varies between areas; Jobsearch methods of the workless differ substantially from the methods reported as successful by those in work; Jobcentre use varies by region, sector, qualification level, and ethnicity; local area analysis shows significant differences within and between locations