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Title: Evaluating Match Quality in Labor Markets
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1. Terris, Kristin Lynn
Evaluating Match Quality in Labor Markets
Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgetown University, 2004. DAI-A 66/01, p. 288, Jul 2005
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Age and Ageing; Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Job Search; Mobility, Job; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Schooling

In the three chapters of this dissertation, I analyze large samples from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to study match quality in the labor market. I use non-linear, semi-parametric estimation techniques. In the first chapter, I characterize the duration of employment for an individual's first job after leaving high school. I find that employment duration has a significant positive correlation with the length of the preceding non-employment spell. I take this as evidence that increasing search time improves the quality of the match. In addition, factors that reduce an individual's ability to conduct an effective job search decrease match quality and factors that increase family stability have a positive impact on match quality.

The second chapter examines the effects of schooling on match quality. I characterize the distribution of employment for high school and college graduates. I find evidence that job mobility is considerably lower for college graduates. In addition, wage changes between jobs are correlated with the decision to move, and between-job wage changes are significantly higher for college graduates. Higher wages lead to a lower hazard out of employment and therefore longer employment durations. I take this as evidence that college graduates are making better quality matches and that there are positive returns to schooling on match quality.

The third chapter characterizes the ways in which age and worker mobility contribute to the quality of the employment match. As they age, workers experience a significant decline in mobility. Analyzing the determinants of workers' decisions to move, I find evidence that older workers make higher-quality matches.

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Terris, Kristin Lynn. Evaluating Match Quality in Labor Markets. Ph.D. Dissertation, Georgetown University, 2004. DAI-A 66/01, p. 288, Jul 2005.