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Understanding Labour Market Frictions: A Tobin’s Q Approach

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Labour market friction is viewed as the Tobin’s Q of an employed worker as opposed to the position of the Beveridge curve. This Tobin’s Q is inversely proportional to the average quality of the match between employers and workers. Based on this measure, I find that the labour market friction behaves procyclically in the US, which is indicative of the fact that firms compromise on the quality of the skill match during an expansion.

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  • Parantap Basu, 2006. "Understanding Labour Market Frictions: A Tobin’s Q Approach," CDMA Conference Paper Series 0601, Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis.
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