Over the past decade, a growing number of employers has been using the Web for advertising job opportunities through Web job vacancies, that usually specify a job position, along with a set of skills a candidate should possess. Reasoning with these Web job advertisements can effectively support the decision marking processes of several labour market stakeholders, including public organisations,...

The high demand for conservation work is creating a need for conservation-focused training of scientists. Although many people with postsecondary degrees in biology are finding careers outside academia, many programs and mentors continue to prepare students to follow-in-the-footsteps of their professors. Unfortunately, information regarding how to prepare for today's conservation-based job mark...

Can Active Labor Market Policy Be Counter-Productive? We study active labor market policies (ALMP) in a matching model. ALMPs are modelled as a subsidy to job search. Workers differ in their productivity, and search takes place along an extensive margin. An additional job seeker affects the quality of unemployed workers. As a result, the Hosios conditions are no longer valid. To replicate the o...

In a society that becomes more and more integrated with the technology and its benefits, the changes can be noted everywhere, including on the job market. When the society becomes more digital, the same happens with the jobs and employs, and while the technology brings to us new necessities, it also provides the ways we can reach them. Things like Telework and Telecommuting are going to be comm...

The paper investigates temporary layoffs on the Swedish labour market. Previous reports of few temporary layoffs are rejected. About 45% of the unemployed people who found a job, returned to a previous employer. As a stock measure, 10% of the unemployed are on temporary layoff. Using new job and recall as distinct exits in a competing risks model, one cannot reject a horizontal duration depende...

Repeated Job Quits: Stepping Stones or Learning about Quality? Despite the fact that worker quits are often associated with wage gains and higher overall job satisfaction, many workers quit once again within one or two years after changing jobs initially. Such repeated job quit behavior may arise as a stepping stone to better quality jobs (Burdett, 1978) or as a response to unexpectedly low job...

Internet job-searching offers an empirical setting in which to explore the potential trade-offs between quality and quantity of information in the labor market. As both firms and workers turn to the internet for unprecedented amounts of labor market information, it is unclear whether this makes the matching process more efficient. Using longitudinal data on two samples of unemployed job-searche...

This paper develops a dynamic model of mismatch. Workers and jobs are randomly assigned to labor markets. Each labor market clears at each instant but some have more workers than jobs, hence unemployment, and some have more jobs than workers, hence vacancies. As workers and jobs move between labor markets, some unemployed workers find vacant jobs and some employed workers lose or leave their jo...

The article explores emergence and survival of human resource management strategies and organisational types in a knowledge-based job market. The analysis considers a dynamic environment in which skill requirements change rapidly. We built an agent-based model to simulate a market where firms post job offers to fill vacancies and decide how to select and reward employees; employees, bearing ski...