Arbeitspapier

How to Improve Worker-Firm Matching: Evidence from a Temporary Foreign Worker Market

This paper investigates the role of worker-firm matching algorithms in accounting for early job separation rates. For this purpose, we examine Korea’s temporary foreign worker program in which the government classifies firms by priority levels and matches them with foreign workers based on their stated preferences. Using administrative data, we examine predictors for the job separation rates and propose alternative matching methods using the serial dictatorship. Our simulation results show that alternative matching methods can substantially reduce job separation rates, suggesting a possible improvement of the Korean program.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14328

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Subject
market design
migration
temporary immigrants
job matching
employment permit system

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Cho, Yoon Y.
Lee, Soohyung
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(where)
Bonn
(when)
2021

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Cho, Yoon Y.
  • Lee, Soohyung
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Time of origin

  • 2021

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