If you are interested in a general background on the economics of science, I would highly recommend Paula Stephan’s 2012 book How Economics Shapes Science. She is a real expert in this area, and the book does an excellent job of summarizing her work as well as others’ research in this area. Chapter 7 of her book covers the market for scientists and engineers. She notes that this market differs ...

Economic conditions at the time of entering the labour market can induce wage differentials between entry cohorts. While there exists much empirical evidence on the existence and persistence of these cohort effects, little is known about their impact on employees’ mobility behaviour. Using a large data set derived from German administrative data, this paper analyzes the determinants of job mobi...

This paper uses an administrative dataset to analyze to what extent active labor market policies in the Slovak Republic have been beneficial for unemployed workers. The focus is on two types of temporary subsidized jobs and on training. Short-term subsidized jobs seem to be the most efficient active labor market policy. Workers that are or have been on a short-term subsidized job have a higher ...

In today’s rapidly changing workplace, it’s becoming more and more difficult for recruiters to find employees that are right for their business. Consideration of cultural fit, experience, ability to adapt to the company’s marketplace and ability to grow with the organisation all weigh heavily on the minds of most human resource professionals. This paper describes the development and progress of...

This paper establishes asymptotic theory and inference method for quantile treatment effect estimators when the quantile index is close or equal to zero. Such quantile treatment effects are of interest in many economic applications, such as the effect of maternal smoking on an infant’s adverse birth outcomes. When the quantile index is close to zero, the sparsity of data jeopardizes conventiona...

This paper studies the role of labor market institutions on unemployment and on the cyclical properties of job flows. We construct an intertemporal general equilibrium model with search unemployment and endogenous job turnover, and examine the consequences of introducing an unemployment benefit, a firing cost and a downward wage rigidity. The model is able to reproduce the main cyclical propert...

In this paper, we consider the social value of signaling by recasting the Spence’s (1973) signaling model in a causal relationship: human capital investment is necessary to reduce the marginal cost of signaling. Our model contains distinct features: (i) the choice of signaling affects the level of human capital investment and (ii) the proportion of high and low type in the entire workers is end...

In this paper the Signalling approach to the explanation of wage di®erentials is analyzed both under a microeconomic and a macroeconomic viewpoint. Departuring from the classical Spence's model, the introduction of inequalities in accessing to education leads to redistributive e®ects among workers and ̄rms. Moreover the existence of factors related both to local and to parental externalities gr...

This paper develops a consistent set of worker flow data for The Netherlands, based on the availability of actual time series and a number of additional assumptions, between all essential states in the labour market: employed, unemployed and out of the labour market. Furthermore, we also construct, based on the same principle, series of job flows, where job creation, job destruction and job rea...