The Quality-Weighted Matching Function: Did the German Labour Market Reforms Trade off Efficiency against Job Quality?

Hermann Gartner, Thomas Rothe and Enzo Weber

No 201924, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "We evaluate the quantity-quality trade-off on the labor market by estimating an augmented matching functionweighting the matches by quality measures. We use the approach to evaluate the German labor market reforms conducted between 2003 and 2005. Indeed, we find a significant quantity-quality trade-off. However, even after controlling for job quality, a good half of the positive effect of reforms on the matchingefficiency remains." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Auswirkungen; Beschäftigungseffekte; Hartz-Reform; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; matching; Personaleinstellung; Qualität der Arbeit; Arbeitsmarktgleichgewicht (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 J11 J65 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2019-12-04
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Published in/as: Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, (2023), doi:10.1111/jmcb.13064

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