TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Herz, Benedikt
AU  - Rens, Thijs van
        TI  - Accounting for Mismatch Unemployment
        PY  - 2015/Feb/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8884
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8884
        AB  - We investigate unemployment due to mismatch in the US over the past three decades. We propose an accounting framework that allows us to estimate the overall amount of mismatch unemployment as well as the contribution of the frictions that caused the mismatch. Mismatch is quantitatively important for unemployment and the cyclical behavior of mismatch unemployment is very similar to that of the overall unemployment rate. Geographic mismatch is driven primarily by wage frictions. Mismatch across industries is driven by wage frictions as well as barriers to job mobility. We find virtually no role for worker mobility frictions.
        KW  - worker mobility
KW  - structural unemployment
KW  - mismatch
KW  - job mobility
        ER  -