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Title: Mismatch Unemployment

Author(s): Aysegul Sahin, Joseph Song, Giorgio Topa and Giovanni L. Violante

Publication Date: August 2012

Keyword(s): great recession, mismatch, unemployment and vacancies

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Labour Economics

Abstract: We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources of cross-sectional data on vacancies, JOLTS and HWOL, a new database covering the universe of onlineU.S. job advertisements. Mismatch across industries and occupations explains at most 1/3 of the total observed increase in the unemployment rate, whereas geographical mismatch plays no apparent role. The share of the rise in unemployment explained by occupational mismatch is increasing in the education level.

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Sahin, A, Song, J, Topa, G and Violante, G. 2012. 'Mismatch Unemployment'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9093