Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21197 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 339
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb- Douglas production frontier model extended to allow the efficiency coefficient to depend on variables meant to capture workers and firms characteristics. We apply this methodology to examine regional disparities in France over the period 1990-1995. About 30% of the efficiency changes observed over time and some 25% of the cross regional differences can be explained in terms of changes in firms and workers characteristics. Regional differences in matching efficiency are fairly stable over time and negatively correlated to the regional unemployment rates.
Subjects: 
Matching efficiency
regional unemployment
stochastic frontier
JEL: 
J64
C24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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