Abstract I investigate the role of labor market flows in decline routine employment Switzerland between 1992 and 2018 using rich individual-level panel data from Swiss Labour Force Survey. Existing research on effects digital transformation has identified jobs with a high content tasks as particularly prone to automation. My analysis shows that was almost entirely driven by decreasing inflow ra...

This paper examines the effects of a private sector prison work program called the Prison Industry Enhancement Certification Program (PIECP) on unemployment duration, length of formal employment, and earnings of men and women released from various state prisons between 1996 and 2001. The labor market dynamics of formerly incarcerated men and women are also investigated. The program is found to ...

Our objective is to study, in a labor market characterized by search frictions, the effects of technological progress on the average quality of the job matches. We will see as results that the effects of technological progress on the labor market depend upon the initial conditions of the economy. If the economy is totally characterized by the presence of low-quality job matches, an increase in ...

We study incentives for skill acquisition when skills cannot be contracted on. Our framework has two features. First, workers can acquire both firm specific and general skills at a cost, and second, job assignments signal skill acquisition to a less informed labor market. Our key insight is that each skill performs a different function. The firm specific skill helps in revealing information to ...

An experimental simulation was conducted to examine potential differences in sensitivity to forces to supply and demand among male and female sextyped jobs. Respondents faced with a labor shortage favored raising salaries for male sex-typed jobs, but favored alternatives to salary increases for female sex-typed jobs at entry and middle levels Findings are discussed in terms of occupational sex ...

The study introduces a distinction between two types of labor mobility: direct job to job changes (which are assumed to be voluntary) and job changes after experiencing an unemployment spell (assumed to be involuntary). Exploiting the close relationship between those two phenomena we adopt a bivariate regression framework for our empirical analysis of data on male individuals in the German labo...