A Directed Search Model of Crowding Out

Yu Chen
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Yu Chen: University of Calgary

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2022, vol. 43, 308-340

Abstract: I show that the labor-market crowding out of less-educated workers can be understood as the labor-market response to an adverse-selection problem. When high-skilled workers apply for less skill-intensive jobs, adverse selection arises when employment contracts cannot systematically discriminate against education level, even though overqualified workers are more likely to quit. In order to separate workers, the equilibrium distorts the labor-market outcomes of less-educated workers with an inefficiently high unemployment rate. Furthermore, the distortion creates a market value of post-secondary vocational education, because it acts as an entry barrier and protects less-educated workers from the competition of overqualified college graduates. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: directed search; adverse selection; crowding out (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 I26 J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.red.2021.02.009

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