Essays on labour markets in Russia and Eastern Europe by Bouev, M, Bouev, Maxim

“…<p>This thesis is concerned with various aspects of transitional labour reallocation either between different labour market states, or between less and more efficient enterprises, or between formal and informal sectors. …”

Essays on the relation between higher education and the labour market by Hou, S

“…I produce a model that combines endogenous education choice with heterogeneity and uncertainty in returns, with a labour market framework based on matching that creates supply and demand-like wage responses. …”

Wage-Tenure Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market: Firms' Strategies for Recruitment and Retention. by Stevens, M

“…A common assumption in equilibrium search and matching models of the labour market is that each firm posts a wage, to be paid to any worker hired. …”

Wage-Tenure Contracts in a Frictional Labour Market: Firms' Stratgies for Recruitment and Retention. by Stevens, M

“…This paper analyses the contract-posting equilibrium in a general equilibrium matching model of the labour market with on-the-job turnover. Privately optimal contracts have a rising wage-tenure profile, even when productivity is constant. …”

Job search and migration by Balgova, M

“…Standard models of within-country mobility assume that all migration is speculative: workers move to search for jobs in other labour markets. I establish a new stylised fact showing that the majority of cross-regional migration in the US is in fact with a job in hand, as a result of a job offer from another region. …”

Unemployment, Particiation and Market Size. by Keller, G, Roberts, K, Stevens, M

“…We construct an equilibrium random matching model of the labour market, with endogenous market participation and a general matching technology that allows for market size effects: the job-finding rate for workers and the incentives for participation change with the level of unemployment. …”

Unemployment, participation and market size by Keller, G, Roberts, K, Stevens, M

“…We construct an equilibrium random matching model of the labour market, with endogenous market participation and a general matching technology that allows for market size effects: the job-finding rate for workers and the incentives for participation change with the level of unemployment. …”

Reconciling Theoretical and Empirical Human Capital Earnings Functions. by Stevens, M

“…This paper show that an earnings function can be interpreted as a wage offer in a labour market auction in which the worker accepts the highest offer received.…”

Should Firms Be Required to Pay for Vocational Training? by Stevens, M

“…Failure in the training market may result from credit constraints and other capital market imperfections, deterring potential trainees, or labour market imperfections creating external benefits for firms. …”

New microfoundations for the aggregate matching function, with empirical and theoretical implications by Stevens, M

“…Although a number of different models have been suggested for the process that brings workers and firms together in the labour market, none of these performs well in empirical studies of the aggregate matching function. …”

Unemployment and market size by Ellison, M, Keller, G, Roberts, K, Stevens, M

“…Without strong empirical support, labour market matching models typically assume constant returns to scale in matching. …”

New Microfoundations for the Aggregate Matching Function, with Empirical and Theoretical Implications. by Stevens, M

“…Although a number of different models have been suggested for the process that brings workers and firms together in the labour market, none of these performs well in empirical studies of the aggregate matching function. …”

Human capital and competition: strategic complementarities in firm-based training by Stevens, M

“…Incentives to invest in human capital are determined jointly with labour turnover and the intensity of competition between employers for skilled workers, and the dependence of labour market conditions on human capital leads to strategic complementarity between training decisions. …”

Human Capital Theory and UK Vocational Training Policy. by Stevens, M

“…Under-investment can arise from credit constraints and uncertainty facing trainees, and from imperfect competition in the labour market which creates external benefits for firms. …”

Human capital and competition: strategic complementarities in firm-based training by Stevens, M

“…Incentives to invest in human capital are determined jointly with labour turnover and the intensity of competition between employers for skilled workers, and the dependence of labour market conditions on human capital leads to strategic complementarity between training decisions. …”

Are skilled and unskilled labour complements or substitutes? by Behar, A

“…Assuming skilled and unskilled labour are perfect substitutes, we model expanded educational access as it adds relatively educated cohorts to the labour market. A rising skill composition causes accelerated skill-biased technological change and wage inequality. …”

Essays on self-employment in Africa by Lain, J

“…We test the plausibility of this claim and its implications for labour market outcomes. First, we use a simple model of occupational choice to clarify our ideas about which notions of 'job flexibility' are important for the Ghanaian context. …”