We assess South African workseekers’ skills and disseminate the assessment results to explore how limited information affects firm workseeker behavior. Giving workseekers that they can credibly share with firms increases employment earnings better aligns their skills, beliefs search strategies. cannot easily has similar effects on search, but smaller earnings. only shifts interview decisions. T...

Human Capital Externalities with Monopsonistic Competition This paper provides a novel microeconomic foundation for pecuniary human capital externalities in a labor market model of monopsonistic competition. Multiple equilibria arise because of a strategic complementarity in investment decisions. JEL Classification: D43, J24

The Relevance of Post-Match LTC: Why Has the Spanish Labor Market Become as Volatile as the US One? We present a Search and Matching model with heterogeneous workers (entrants and incumbents) that replicates the stylized facts characterizing the US and the Spanish labor markets. Under this benchmark, we find the Post-Match Labor Turnover Costs (PMLTC) to be the centerpiece to explain why the Sp...

فرزند‌پروری پس از طلاق یکی تکالیف حساس پیش روی والدین مُطلقه، و عوامل مؤثر در سلامت روانی فرزندان به شمار می‌آید. هدف این مطالعه کشف تبیین تجارب زیسته‌ هم‌والدگری است. روش کیفی با استفاده پدیدارشناسی توصیفی انجام شد. جامعه پژوهش شامل کلیه‌ والدینی بود که تجربه‌ فرزندپروری را داشته‌اند. برای تعیین حجم نمونه معیار اشباع داده شد نمونه‌گیری هدفمند تعداد 12 نفر (زن، مرد) انتخاب شدند مورد مصاحبه‌ نیمه...

On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This ...

Regression and neural network models of wage determination are constructed where the explanatory variables include detailed information about skills. People skills, strategic skills, and IT skills all carry strong and significant wage premia; problemsolving skills (surprisingly) and physical skills (less surprisingly) do not. In contrast to the impact of school curriculum on subsequent earnings...

I thank Claire Black and Wei-Jang Huang for assistance in preparing this paper. I appreciate the comments of George Erickcek on a preliminary version of this paper. This paper was previously presented on November 20, 2009 at the 57th Annual Economic Outlook Conference of the Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (RSQE) at the University of Michigan. I appreciate comments and questions for ...

We apply the comparative techniques originated by Wolpin, K.I. (1977, Education and screening, American Economic Review, 67, 949–958) and Psacharopoulos (1979, On the weak versus the strong version of the screening hypothesis, Economics Letters, 4, 181–185) to discriminate between the ‘weak’ and ‘strong’ screening hypotheses. Controlling for sample selection, we find evidence for weak but not s...