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Labor Market Policies in an Equilibrium Matching Model with Heterogenous (sic) Agents and On-The-Job Search Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Iowa, 2007 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Endogeneity; Heterogeneity; Job Search; Job Skills; Skills Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation quantitatively evaluates selected labor market policies in a search-matching model with skill heterogeneity where high-skilled workers can take temporary jobs with skill requirements below their skill levels. The joint posterior distribution of structural parameters of the theoretical model is obtained conditional on the data on labor markets histories of the NLSY79 respondents. The information on AFQT scores of individuals and the skill requirements of occupations is utilized to identify the skill levels of workers and complexity levels of jobs in the job-worker matches realized in the data. The model and the data are used to simulate the posterior distributions of impacts of labor market policies on the endogenous variables of interest to a policy-maker, including unemployment rates, durations and wages of low- and high-skilled workers. In particular, the effects of the following policies are analyzed: increase in proportion of high-skilled workers, subsidies for employing or hiring high- and low-skilled workers and increase in unemployment income. |
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Stavrunova, Olena. Labor Market Policies in an Equilibrium Matching Model with Heterogenous (sic) Agents and On-The-Job Search. Ph.D. Dissertation, The University of Iowa, 2007. |