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Learning about match quality: Information flows and labor market outcomes

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Workers with lower skills have higher unemployment rates. This is because they are more likely to become unemployed, not because they are less likely to find a job. Thus, understanding the differences between skill groups in the probability of becoming unemployed is crucial to understanding the gap between their unemployment rates. This paper analyzes to what extent these differences come from variations in information frictions about the suitability of an employee for the job (match quality) by skill.

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  • Sengul, Gonul, 2017. "Learning about match quality: Information flows and labor market outcomes," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 118-130.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:labeco:v:46:y:2017:i:c:p:118-130
    DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2017.04.001
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    Keywords

    Unemployment; Skill; Match quality; Hiring strategies; Search and matching models;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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