EFFICIENCY OF JOB MATCHING MECHANISMS: A CROSS‐NATIONAL COMPARISON

Jouke van Dijk, Alan M. Schlottmann, Henk Folmer () and Henry W. Herzog

Papers in Regional Science, 1988, vol. 64, issue 1, 79-94

Abstract: ABSTRACT The purpose of the present paper is to gain insight into the efficiency of the labour market information and job matching mechanisms by means of a cross‐national analysis of labour force micro data for the Netherlands and the United States. First, the impact of personal and regional unemployment on the decision to migrate is investigated Second, job search success is evaluated by measuring the impacts of the regional Labour market situation and migration on the tre‐employment probabilities of the unemployed in both countries. The result is that the Dutch information system which allows nationwide job search from the home area without migration is superior to the U.S. system of speculative migration.

Date: 1988
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