FRICTIONS AND MISMATCHES IN THE LABOR MARKET

Burhan Biner and Turkmen Goksel ()
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Turkmen Goksel: Department of Economics, Faculty of Political Sciences, Ankara University, Cemal Gursel Ave, Cebeci, Ankara 06590, Turkey

The Singapore Economic Review (SER), 2023, vol. 68, issue 03, 685-701

Abstract: We develop an infinite-horizon dynamic search model to understand education–job mismatches in the labor markets where job seekers face three different types of labor markets based on their minimum educational requirements. Using a new dataset, we find that our model matches the US data well when we introduce heterogeneity through wage distributions. We use counterfactual experiments to show that even when the general unemployment level is kept constant, if the conditions within different job market types change, overeducation levels may increase or decrease dramatically. We find that regardless of the general unemployment level, frictions in the job market is the main reason for overeducation. However when unemployment is high, highly educated job seekers may settle for jobs below their education level at a higher level leading to a high degree of overeducation in the labor market and crowding out job seekers who have lower level of education.

Keywords: Dynamic search; mismatch; overeducation; Monte Carlo Simulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 J01 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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