Arbeitspapier

On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers

This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs. Our findings show that on-the-job search introduces an additional source of between and within-group wage inequality. Furthermore, the higher quit rate of mismatched workers exerts a negative externality on unskilled jobs and weakens the labour market position of low-educated workers. This last feature changes the effects of skill-biased technological change and it alters the response of the labour market to shifts in the skill distribution.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 886

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Thema
job search
skills
unemployment
wage inequality
Arbeitsuche
Arbeitsnachfrage
Ungelernte Arbeitskräfte
Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte
Lohnstruktur
Matching
Strukturelle Arbeitslosigkeit
Theorie

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Dolado, Juan José
Jansen, Marcel
Jimeno, Juan F.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2003

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Dolado, Juan José
  • Jansen, Marcel
  • Jimeno, Juan F.
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2003

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