Date of Degree
2007
Document Type
dissertation
Degree Name
PhD (Doctor of Philosophy)
Department
Economics
First Advisor
John Geweke
Abstract
This dissertation quantitatively evaluates selected labor market policies in a search-matching model with skill heterogeneity where high-skilled workers can take temporary jobs with skill requirements below their skill levels. The joint posterior distribution of structural parameters of the theoretical model is obtained conditional on the data on labor markets histories of the NLSY79 respondents. The information on AFQT scores of individuals and the skill requirements of occupations is utilized to identify the skill levels of workers and complexity levels of jobs in the job-worker matches realized in the data. The model and the data are used to simulate the posterior distributions of impacts of labor market policies on the endogenous variables of interest to a policy-maker, including unemployment rates, durations and wages of low- and high-skilled workers. In particular, the effects of the following policies are analyzed: increase in proportion of high-skilled workers, subsidies for employing or hiring high- and low-skilled workers and increase in unemployment income.
Pages
ix,135
Bibliography
133-135
Copyright
Copyright 2007 Olena Stavrunova
Recommended Citation
Stavrunova, Olena. "Labor market policies in an equilibrium matching model with heterogeneous agents and on-the-job search." dissertation, University of Iowa, 2007.
http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/150.