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EFFICIENCY OF JOB MATCHING MECHANISMS: A CROSS‐NATIONAL COMPARISON
Author(s) -
Dijk Jouke,
Schlottmann Alan M.,
Folmer Hendrik,
Herzog Henry W.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
papers in regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1435-5957
pISSN - 1056-8190
DOI - 10.1111/j.1435-5597.1988.tb01116.x
Subject(s) - matching (statistics) , unemployment , labour economics , economics , economic growth , medicine , pathology
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.