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Estimating the probability of a match using micro-economic data for the youth labour market

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Steve Bradley
MJ Andrews
R Upward

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In this paper we estimate the probability of a match for contacts between job seekers and vacancies. We relate the determinants of a match to the characteristics of the job seeker, the vacancy, and aggregate labour market conditions. Our main results are: ethnic minorities are discriminated against but women are not; employers 'cream' the market and job seekers are ranked by their labour market status; high wage earners have a lower probability of a match; the probability of filling a job vacancy falls with duration; and the higher the stock of unemployed youths in a labour market, the lower the matching probability.

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Keywords: matching probability; two-sided search; youth labour market;

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  1. Holzer, Harry J, 1988. "Search Method Use by Unemployed Youth," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 6(1), pages 1-20, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Alan Manning, 1999. "Pretty Vacant: Recruitment in Low Wage Labour Markets," CEP Discussion Papers dp0418, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Ken Burdett & Randall Wright, 1998. "Two-Sided Search with Nontransferable Utility," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 1(1), pages 220-245, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. van Ours, J. C. & Ridder, G., 1995. "Job matching and job competition: Are lower educated workers at the back of job queues?," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 39(9), pages 1717-1731, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  7. Coles, Melvyn G & Smith, Eric, 1996. "Cross-Section Estimation of the Matching Function: Evidence from England and Wales," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 63(252), pages 589-97, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  8. Barron, John M & Black, Dan A & Loewenstein, Mark A, 1987. "Employer Size: The Implications for Search, Training, Capital Investment, Starting Wages, and Wage Growth," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 5(1), pages 76-89, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Kölling, Arnd, 2002. "Fachkräftebedarf als betriebliches Matching-Problem (Demand for qualified employees as a matching-problem for firms)," Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 35(4), pages 566-579. [Downloadable!]
  2. Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos & Smith, Eric, 2009. "Wage Dispersion and Wage Dynamics Within and Across Firms," IZA Discussion Papers 4031, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  3. Steve Bradley & MJ Andrews & D Stott, 2001. "The school-to-work transition, skill preferences and matching," Working Papers 000034, Lancaster University Management School, Economics Department. [Downloadable!]
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  4. M. J. Andrews & S. Bradley & D. Stott, 2002. "Matching the Demand for and Supply of Training in the School-to-Work Transition," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 112(478), pages C201-C219, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Eriksson, Stefan & Lagerström, Jonas, 2004. "Competition between employed and unemployed job applicants: Swedish evidence," Working Paper Series 2004:2, IFAU - Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Martyn Andrews & Steve Bradley & Dave Stott & Richard Upward, 2006. "Why do job-seeker and vacancy hazards slope downwards? Estimating a two-sidedsearch model of the labour market," The School of Economics Discussion Paper Series 0635, Economics, The University of Manchester. [Downloadable!]
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