Mismatch Cycles

Isaac Baley, Ana Figueiredo () and Robert Ulbricht
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Ana Figueiredo: Erasmus School of Economics

No 981, Boston College Working Papers in Economics from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper studies the cyclical dynamics of skill mismatch and quantifies its impact on labor productivity. We build a tractable directed search model, in which workers differ in skills along multiple dimensions and sort into jobs with heterogeneous skill requirements. Skill mismatch arises due to information frictions and is prolonged by search frictions. Estimated to the U.S., the model replicates salient business cycle properties of mismatch. Job transitions in and out of bottom job rungs, combined with career mobility, are key to account for the empirical fit. The model provides a novel narrative for the scarring effect of unemployment.

Keywords: Business cycles; cleansing; learning about skills; multidimensional sorting; scarring effect of unemployment; search-and-matching; skill mismatch; sullying (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 E32 J24 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-08-21, Revised 2021-08-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-dge, nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-ure
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