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An Empirical Analysis of the Matching Process in the Spanish Public Employment Agencies: The Vacancies

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  • Pablo Álvarez de Toledo

    (Department of Industrial Organization, School of Engineering, University of Seville)

  • Fernando Núñez

    (Department of Industrial Organization, School of Engineering, University of Seville)

  • Carlos Usabiaga

    (Department of Economics, Pablo de Olavide University)

Abstract

Our work tries to assess the degree to which the matching process of the vacancies managed by the Andalusian public employment agencies (SAE) approaches a theoretical model of the stock-flow type as described by Coles (1994, CEPR) and his collaborators. According to this model, a new vacancy can be "good" (relatively scarce in its labour segment) or "bad" (relatively abundant in its labour segment); this unobservable heterogeneity at the aggregate level determines the probability of coverage of the vacancy and the characteristics of the worker who occupies it. For our study, we work with a sample of 3.565 vacancies registered in the SAE between March 2006 and October 2008. The proposed test requires the estimation of a duration model for the hazard rate of vacancies with multiple exits. A novelty of our test is that it does not require information about the entire stock and flow of candidates of the other side of the market. The main result obtained is the existence of certain evidence in favour of stock-flow matching.

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  • Pablo Álvarez de Toledo & Fernando Núñez & Carlos Usabiaga, 2011. "An Empirical Analysis of the Matching Process in the Spanish Public Employment Agencies: The Vacancies," Working Papers 11.03, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
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    1. Vicente Núñez-Antón & Juan Manuel Pérez-Salamero González & Marta Regúlez-Castillo & Carlos Vidal-Meliá, 2020. "Improving the Representativeness of a Simple Random Sample: An Optimization Model and Its Application to the Continuous Sample of Working Lives," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 8(8), pages 1-27, July.

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    Keywords

    Public employment agencies; Matching; Vacancies; Duration models; Stock-flow model.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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