Cel The work laid out in this proposal aims to change our understanding of labor markets by viewing both the mobility as well as the frictions in the market as a consequence of long-term worker heterogeneity. Despite the advances in information technology which substantially reduce the costs of sending information (job advertisements, job applications) extracting the relevant information about worker quality remains hard. Long-term differences in ability coupled with screening frictions are proposed as the main reason for mismatch, for mobility, and for the presence of unemployment.The proposal is based on novel empirical observations on occupational mobility. Both low-paid workers as well as high-paid workers in an occupation tend to leave it. The former tend to move to occupations with lower average pay, while the opposite holds for the latter. This happens even within firms, and after excluding managerial positions.Most work on selection assumes that low-earners leave. This data suggest a novel angle: Workers have a long-term type that affects productivity in their current and in new occupations. They might accumulate human capital, but also their baseline ability is imperfectly known. Unexpectedly low performers (low-wage workers) have to leave towards less demanding tasks, while high performers change to more demanding tasks. This consistently accounts for the observed selection patterns.When workers know more about their ability than new firms, this also explains unemployment: firms spend efforts on screening, and impose costs on workers to induce them to self-select. The latter counteracts exogenous reductions in workers’ search costs. The aim is to develop a tractable model of screening unemployment that can serve as a building block in larger macro-labor models, and to assess the work of the government employment agency through the lens of a mechanism designer that facilitates match-making but relies on firms for additional screening of the unemployed. Dziedzina nauki social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivitysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemploymentsocial sciencessociologysocial issuesunemployment Program(-y) FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Temat(-y) ERC-SG-SH1 - ERC Starting Grant - Individuals, institutions and markets Zaproszenie do składania wniosków ERC-2011-StG_20101124 Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania ERC-SG - ERC Starting Grant Instytucja przyjmująca EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Wkład UE € 317 034,67 Adres VIA DEI ROCCETTINI 9 50014 Fiesole Włochy Zobacz na mapie Region Centro (IT) Toscana Firenze Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Serena Scarselli (Mrs.) Kierownik naukowy Philipp Kircher (Dr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Beneficjenci (2) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE Włochy Wkład UE € 317 034,67 Adres VIA DEI ROCCETTINI 9 50014 Fiesole Zobacz na mapie Region Centro (IT) Toscana Firenze Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Serena Scarselli (Mrs.) Kierownik naukowy Philipp Kircher (Dr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH Zakończenie uczestnictwa Zjednoczone Królestwo Wkład UE € 852 965,33 Adres OLD COLLEGE, SOUTH BRIDGE EH8 9YL Edinburgh Zobacz na mapie Region Scotland Eastern Scotland Edinburgh Rodzaj działalności Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Kontakt administracyjny Sue Coleman (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych