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Barbara Petrongolo.

Barbara Petrongolo

Visiting Professor

Expertise: Labour markets, Gender inequalities

Telephone:
020 7955 7799
Email:
b.petrongolo@lse.ac.uk
barbara.petrongolo@economics.ox.ac.uk
Room:
SAL 2.36 A
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University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Biography

Barbara Petrongolo is a Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. She is Fellow of the British Academy and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics.

Current areas of research include:

  • The impacts of work and workplaces on mental health
  • Work organization and gender specialization
  • Structural transformation, care work, and gender
  • The anatomy of child penalties

Publications

Chapter
Labour markets and gender inequality

Wide disparities persist in the wages and economic power of men and women in nearly all countries. Women still make different educational decisions to men, are under-represented in high-paying jobs, and suffer the majori... Read more...

Oriana Bandiera and Barbara Petrongolo

16 October 2025

Blog
Gender and the labour market

How much progress have we made in finding out the source of gender inequality at work? At the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum 2025, Barbara Petrongolo of the University of Oxford and CEPR gave the keynote lecture on 'Questions and... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

01 August 2025

Journal article
Vacancy duration and wages

We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration elasticities by leveragi... Read more...

Ihsaan Bassier, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

05 March 2025

Blog
The evolution of gender in the labour market

Despite significant progress in closing the gender gap in earnings, work remains highly gendered, with women continuing to participate less in the workforce, work fewer hours, and face persistent wage disparities. This c... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan and Barbara Petrongolo

20 January 2025

CEP discussion papers
The evolution of gender in the labor market

This paper traces the evolution of the study of gender in the labor market, focusing on how academic thinking on this topic has evolved alongside real world developments in gender inequality from the 1980s to the present... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan and Barbara Petrongolo

07 January 2025

Blog
Birth timing and spacing: Implications for parental leave dynamics and child penalties

Estimates of the impact of having children on labour market outcomes can differ significantly depending on whether a parent is categorised as employed or non-employed during parental leave. This column uses data from Den... Read more...

Abigail Adams, Mathias Fjaellegaard Jensen and Barbara Petrongolo

23 November 2024

Journal article
Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

Using micro data for the UK and Germany, we provide novel evidence on the cyclical properties of reservation wages and estimate that wages and reservation wages are characterised by moderate and very similar degrees of c... Read more...

Felix Koenig, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

29 October 2024

Blog
Gendered change: 150 years of transformation in US hours

The 2023 Nobel Committee awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin. Among her many contributions is the emphasis on the non-monotonic trend in women's employment... Read more...

L. Rachel Ngai, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

03 July 2024

Journal article
Taxes, childcare and gender identity norms

We investigate the role of gender norms in shaping parental childcare following changes in the relative take-home pay of mothers and fathers. Exploiting variation from Swedish tax reforms, we estimate the elasticity of s... Read more...

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie

01 July 2024

CEP discussion papers
Gendered change: 150 years of transformation in US hours

Women's contribution to the economy has been markedly underestimated in predominantly agricultural societies, due to their widespread involvement in unpaid agricultural work. Combining data from the US Census and several... Read more...

L. Rachel Ngai, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

07 June 2024

Chapter
The evolution of gender in the labor market

This chapter traces the evolution of the study of gender in the labor market, focusing on how academic thinking on this topic has evolved alongside real world developments in gender inequality from the 1980s to the prese... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti, Jessica Pan and Barbara Petrongolo

01 March 2024

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Claudia Goldin: the economics of women and the labour market

The study of gender was far from mainstream in economics when Claudia Goldin began her research on women and work in the 1980s. Barbara Petrongolo discusses the impact of the 2023 economics Nobel laureate in shaping toda... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

20 February 2024

Blog
What Claudia Goldin taught economics about women, labour markets and pay gaps

When Claudia Goldin's research on women's work became influential in the 1980s, the study of gender was far from mainstream in economics. Four decades later, that is no longer the case, in large part thanks to her influe... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

20 October 2023

Blog
Wages and vacancy duration

In a dynamic labour market, employer market power is jointly determined by the entry and exit margins of labour supply - ie the extent to which higher wages ease recruitment and improve rentention. Ihsaan Bassier, Alan M... Read more...

Ihsaan Bassier, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

28 September 2023

Blog
What explains the gender division of labour and how can it be redressed?

Adam Smith's division of labour was about the efficiency gains from task specialisation in factories. But the gender division - gaps between men and women in pay, prestige, career progression and much more - can also be ... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

11 September 2023

CEP discussion papers
Vacancy duration and wages

We estimate the elasticity of vacancy duration with respect to posted wages, using data from the near-universe of online job adverts in the United Kingdom. Our research design identifies duration elasticities by leveragi... Read more...

Ihsaan Bassier, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

18 August 2023

Chapter
Families, labor markets, and policy

Handbook of the Economics of the Family, Volume One includes comprehensive surveys of the current state of the economics literaure in the field, prepared by leading scholars, with a particular empahsis on the most recent... Read more...

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

01 April 2023

Blog
Women in the workplace: 50 years of change

Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizeable gender gaps remain in most indicators of economic achievement. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti, and Barbara Petrongolo revi... Read more...

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

08 March 2023

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Women in the workplace: 50 years of change

Decades of progress have seen greater opportunities for women in the workplace, but sizeable gender gaps remain in most indicators of economic achievement. Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo revie... Read more...

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

21 February 2023

CEP discussion papers
Families, labor markets and policy

Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence in schooling, employment and earnings, marriage delay and the accompanying decline in fertility, and the large remaining gaps in labo... Read more...

Stefania Albanesi, Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

24 November 2022

Journal article
Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under-representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h... Read more...

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

01 June 2022

External reports
Monopsony in local labour markets

In this commentary, we propose a monopsony model of the labour market in which market power stems from idiosyncratic worker preferences over non-wage attributes of jobs. In this set-up, the relationship between wages and... Read more...

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

15 March 2022

CEP discussion papers
Men are from Mars, and women too: a Bayesian meta-analysis of overconfidence experiments

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass-ceiling effects. We draw lessons from the economic literature via a survey of experts and a Bayesian h... Read more...

Oriana Bandiera, Nidhi Parekh, Barbara Petrongolo and Michelle Rao

17 December 2021

CEP Insights
Gender in the workplace

The influx of women into the workplace during the 20th century has been one of the most remarkable changes in the world of work. But in general, women are less likely to be employed than men, they are less likely to hold... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

10 August 2021

Journal article
Work, care and gender during the Covid-19 crisis

We explore the effects of the COVID-19 crisis and the associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the United Kingdom. Using data from the COVID-19 supplement of Understanding... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo

30 November 2020

Blog
Work, care, and gender across UK lockdowns

A growing body of research is making clear the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across gender. This column explores what the likely implications of a second lockdown in the UK are for gender equality at work and i... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo

23 November 2020

Blog
How lockdowns have reversed traditional gender roles in some UK households and further entrenched them in others

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo discuss what the likely implications of a second lockdown are for gender equality at work and in the home.... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo

10 November 2020

CEP discussion papers
Work, care and gender during the Covid-19 crisis

We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. Using data from the Covid-19 supplement of Understanding Society, we find ev... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo

02 October 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Covid-19 and the work patterns of men and women

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo explore the impact of the pandemic on women's labour market prospects and `home production' responsibilities... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo

15 July 2020

Journal article
Gender gaps and the structure of local labor markets

In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income c... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and Maddalena Ronchi

01 June 2020

CEP Covid-19 analyses
Work, care and gender during the Covid-19 crisis

The Covid-19 crisis has especially hit service sectors with frequent social interactions, in which women are over-represented. At the same time, if not directly subject to the lock-down, women are more likely to hold job... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo

14 May 2020

CEP discussion papers
A survey of gender gaps through the lens of the industry structure and local labor markets

In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income c... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and Maddalena Ronchi

27 April 2020

Blog
Covid-19 and gender gaps: Latest evidence and lessons from the UK

The social distancing and lockdowns associated with the COVID-19 crisis has hit service sectors with frequent interactions between consumers and providers which cannot be done from home. At the same time, it has added ed... Read more...

Claudia Hupkau and Barbara Petrongolo

22 April 2020

Journal article
Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a welfare reform

The UK Jobcentre Plus reform sharpened bureaucratic incentives to help disability benefit recipients (relative to unemployment insurance recipients) into jobs. In the long run, the policy raised exits off disability bene... Read more...

Nitika Bagaria, Felix Koenig, Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen

01 November 2019

Blog
Can economic incentives promote a more equal gender division of house chores?

Gender identity norms such as the male bread-winner model are possible drivers of persistent gender inequalities in the labour market. However, the extent to which they restrict the behaviour of couples is debated. While... Read more...

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie

29 July 2019

CEP discussion papers
Economic incentives, home production and gender identity norms

We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in their relative wages. By exploiting variation from a Swedish tax reform, we estimate the elasticity of su... Read more...

Andrea Ichino, Martin Olsson, Barbara Petrongolo and Peter Skogman Thoursie

07 June 2019

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Economic consequences of family policies

There is no compelling evidence that extended parental leave rights have a positive impact on female employment, according to research by Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo, which analyses the labour market effects ... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

29 June 2018

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
How 'local' are local labour markets?

If we want to create jobs in disadvantaged local areas, the idea of `local? needs to be revisited. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo explain the problem of thinking of geographical space as non-overlapping single labou... Read more...

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

01 March 2018

Journal article
The economic consequences of family policies: lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries

By the early 21st century, most high-income countries have put into effect a host of generous and virtually gender-neutral parental leave policies and family benefits, with the multiple goals of gender equity, higher fer... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

01 December 2017

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
In brief... How the rise of the service economy narrowed the gender gap

The historical growth in the service sector since the Second World War has created jobs for which women have a comparative advantage, according to analysis by Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo. Their research shows how ... Read more...

L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

01 October 2017

Journal article
How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model

This paper models the optimal search strategies of the unemployed across space to characterize local labor markets. Our methodology allows for linkages between numerous areas, while preserving tractability. We estimate t... Read more...

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

01 October 2017

Journal article
Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy

This paper investigates the role of the rise in services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We highlight the between-industry component of differential gender trends for the United Stat... Read more...

L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

01 October 2017

CEP discussion papers
The economic consequences of family policies: lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries

We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and ferti... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

24 January 2017

Blog
Does immigration harm the job prospects of the UK-born? Brexit and the UK labour market

Following the referendum vote to leave the European Union, the UK faces a trade-off between retaining access to the Single Market and restricting free movement of labour. Barbara Petrongolo considers the likely impact of... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

08 October 2016

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Brexit and the UK labour market

Following the referendum vote to leave the European Union, the UK faces a trade-off between retaining access to the Single Market and restricting free movement of labour. Barbara Petrongolo considers the likely impact of... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

04 October 2016

Journal article
The evolution of gender gaps in industrialized countries

Women in developed economies have made major advancements in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This article documents long-run t... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

01 October 2016

CEP discussion papers
The evolution of gender gaps in industrialized countries

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends i... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

24 February 2016

CEP discussion papers
Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model ? even if wa... Read more...

Felix Koenig, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

15 February 2016

CEP discussion papers
Can helping the sick hurt the able? Incentives, information and disruption in a welfare reform

The UK Jobcentre Plus reform sharpened bureaucratic incentives to help disability benefit recipients (relative to unemployment insurance recipients) into jobs. In the long-run, the policy raised disability exits by 10% a... Read more...

Nitika Bagaria, Felix Koenig, Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen

29 April 2015

Journal article
Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experime... Read more...

Ghazala Azmat and Barbara Petrongolo

01 October 2014

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Gender and the labour market: evidence from experiments

Lab experiments are an increasingly valuable tool for understanding differences in how men and women are treated in the labour market. Dr Ghazala Azmat and Professor Barbara Petrongolo explore what has been learned about... Read more...

Ghazala Azmat and Barbara Petrongolo

08 May 2014

CEP occasional papers
Gender and the labor market: What have we learned from field and lab experiments?

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experime... Read more...

Ghazala Azmat and Barbara Petrongolo

14 March 2014

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Tackling long-term unemployment

Barbara Petrongolo surveys the research evidence on the effectiveness of the 'sticks' and 'carrots' of active labour market policies.... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

05 February 2014

CEP discussion papers
Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

This paper explains the narrowing of gender gaps in wages and market hours in recent decades by the growth of the service economy. We propose a model with three sectors: goods, services and home production. Women have a ... Read more...

L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

30 April 2013

CEP discussion papers
How Local Are Labour Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labour markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of nonoverlapping administrative... Read more...

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

07 December 2011

CEP discussion papers
Worktime Regulations and Spousal Labor Supply

We investigate cross-hour effects in spousal labor supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the short workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male emp... Read more...

Dominique Goux, Eric Maurin and Barbara Petrongolo

17 November 2011

CEP discussion papers
Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled- to-skilled gender wage gap and the correspo... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

11 November 2011

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Youth unemployment

The rise in joblessness among young people began long before the recession - Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen consider potential explanations.... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen

21 June 2011

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
Chris Pissarides, CEP's Nobel laureate

Barbara Petrongolo outlines how his analysis of markets with search frictions has enhanced our understanding of how labour markets work and how policy-makers should respond... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

01 March 2011

CEP election analysis papers
Jobs and Youth Unemployment: It's bad, but not as bad as you might think

Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and John Van Reenen

01 April 2010

Journal article
The long-term effects of job search requirements: evidence from the UK JSA reform

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related ... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

01 December 2009

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
The Unemployment Trap

The Job Seeker's Allowance was introduced in late 1996 to encourage benefit claimants to look for work. New research by Barbara Petrongolo investigates whether it has succeeded in breaking the 'unemployment trap'.... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

01 May 2008

Journal article
The part-time pay penalty for women in Britain

Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This article tries to explain this part-time... Read more...

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

01 February 2008

CEP discussion papers
The Ins and Outs of European Unemployment

In this paper we study the contribution of inflows and outflows to the dynamics of unemployment in three European countries, the United Kingdom, France and Spain. We compare performance in these three countries making us... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher A. Pissarides

01 February 2008

CEP discussion papers
What Are the Long-Term Effects of UI? Evidence from the UK JSA Reform

This paper investigates long-term returns from unemployment compensation, exploiting variation from the UK JSA reform of 1996, which implied a major increase in job search requirements for eligibility and in the related ... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

01 December 2007

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance
The part-time pay penalty

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.... Read more...

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

01 December 2005

CEP discussion papers
Unequal Pay or Unequal employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

There is evidence of a negative cross-country correlation between gender wage and employment gaps. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the obse... Read more...

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

01 December 2005

CEP discussion papers
The Part-Time Pay Penalty

In 2003, women working part-time in the UK earned, on average, 22% less than women working full-time. Compared to women who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have yo... Read more...

Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo

01 March 2005

CEP discussion papers
Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in north... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

01 May 2004

CEP discussion papers
A Test Between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random... Read more...

Melvyn Coles and Barbara Petrongolo

01 June 2003

CEP discussion papers
Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-stru... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher A. Pissarides

01 June 2003

CEP discussion papers
Looking Into the Black Box: A Survey of the Matching Function

We survey the microfoundations, empirical evidence and estimation issues underlying the aggregate matching function. Several microeconomic matching mechanisms have been suggested in the literature with some successes but... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo and Christopher A. Pissarides

01 September 2000

CEP discussion papers
Workers' Transitions from Temporary to Permanent Employment: the Spanish Case

This paper studies the duration pattern of fixed-term contracts and the determinants of the transformation of these into permanent ones. To address this issue we estimate a duration model for temporary employment, with c... Read more...

Maia Guell and Barbara Petrongolo

01 January 2000

CEP discussion papers
Re-employment Probabilities and Returns to Matching

The assumption of constant returns in the matching function, embodied in most bilateral search models, is crucial to ensure the uniqueness of the unemployment rate along a steady state growth path. This paper explores wh... Read more...

Barbara Petrongolo

01 September 1998

CEP discussion papers
Regional Imbalances and Aggregate Performance in a Leading Sector Model of the Labour Market: An analysis of Italian data 1977-1991

This paper presents a model in which wages throughout the economy depend only on the labour market conditions in some low-unemployment sector. In equilibrium, a labour demand shift towards the primary sector tends to rai... Read more...

Marco Manacorda and Barbara Petrongolo

01 September 1998

CEP discussion papers
European versus US Unemployment: Different Responses to Increased Demand for skill?

According to Paul Krugman, 'the European unemployment problem and the US inequality problem are two sides of the same coin'. In other words, both continents have had the same shift in demand towards skill; in the US rela... Read more...

Richard Jackman, Richard Layard, Marco Manacorda and Barbara Petrongolo

01 June 1997

CEP discussion papers
Random or Non-Random matching? Implications for the use of the UV 234 curve as a measure of matching effectiveness

The instability of the Beveridge curve in Britain since the mid-50s has been interpreted as revealing a detioration of labour market effectiveness in matching vacancies to unemployed job-seekers. This paper repeats the s... Read more...

Paul Gregg and Barbara Petrongolo

01 June 1997

CEP discussion papers
Skill Mismatch and Unemployment in OECD Countries

This paper uses evidence on employment, labour force, and wage differentials by skills from a number of OECD countries to investigate on the characteristics and the consequences of a skill-biased shift in the structure o... Read more...

Marco Manacorda and Barbara Petrongolo

01 September 1996

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