scholarly journals Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

2021 ◽  
pp. 101981
Author(s):  
Nicole Gürtzgen ◽  
Benjamin Lochner ◽  
Laura Pohlan ◽  
Gerard J. van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Online Search ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
New Hires

scholarly journals Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Gürtzgen ◽  
Benjamin Lochner ◽  
Laura Pohlan ◽  
Gerard J. van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Online Search ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
New Hires

scholarly journals Does Online Search Improve the Match Quality of New Hires?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Guertzgen ◽  
Benjamin Lochner ◽  
Laura Pohlan ◽  
Gerard J. van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Online Search ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
New Hires

scholarly journals Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Gertler ◽  
Christopher Huckfeldt ◽  
Antonella Trigari
Keyword(s):  
Match Quality ◽  
Wage Cyclicality ◽  
New Hires

scholarly journals Matching with Text Data: An Experimental Evaluation of Methods for Matching Documents and of Measuring Match Quality

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reagan Mozer ◽  
Luke Miratrix ◽  
Aaron Russell Kaufman ◽  
L. Jason Anastasopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Propensity Scores ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Medical Intervention ◽  
Exact Matching ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Text Data ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Text Matching

Matching for causal inference is a well-studied problem, but standard methods fail when the units to match are text documents: the high-dimensional and rich nature of the data renders exact matching infeasible, causes propensity scores to produce incomparable matches, and makes assessing match quality difficult. In this paper, we characterize a framework for matching text documents that decomposes existing methods into (1) the choice of text representation and (2) the choice of distance metric. We investigate how different choices within this framework affect both the quantity and quality of matches identified through a systematic multifactor evaluation experiment using human subjects. Altogether, we evaluate over 100 unique text-matching methods along with 5 comparison methods taken from the literature. Our experimental results identify methods that generate matches with higher subjective match quality than current state-of-the-art techniques. We enhance the precision of these results by developing a predictive model to estimate the match quality of pairs of text documents as a function of our various distance scores. This model, which we find successfully mimics human judgment, also allows for approximate and unsupervised evaluation of new procedures in our context. We then employ the identified best method to illustrate the utility of text matching in two applications. First, we engage with a substantive debate in the study of media bias by using text matching to control for topic selection when comparing news articles from thirteen news sources. We then show how conditioning on text data leads to more precise causal inferences in an observational study examining the effects of a medical intervention.

scholarly journals Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires

2020 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1876-1914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Gertler ◽  
Christopher Huckfeldt ◽  
Antonella Trigari
Keyword(s):  
Job Search ◽  
Marginal Cost ◽  
Market Volatility ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Composition Effects ◽  
Reasonable Approximation ◽  
Job Match ◽  
Wage Cyclicality ◽  
Sticky Wages ◽  
New Hires

Abstract We revisit the issue of the high cyclicality of wages of new hires. We show that after controlling for composition effects likely involving procyclical upgrading of job match quality, the wages of new hires are no more cyclical than those of existing workers. The key implication is that the sluggish behaviour of wages for existing workers is a better guide to the cyclicality of the marginal cost of labour than is the high measured cyclicality of new hires wages unadjusted for composition effects. Key to our identification is distinguishing between new hires from unemployment versus those who are job changers. We argue that to a reasonable approximation, the wages of the former provide a composition-free estimate of the wage flexibility, while the same is not true for the latter. We then develop a quantitative general equilibrium model with sticky wages via staggered contracting, on-the-job search, and heterogeneous match quality, and show that it can account for both the panel data evidence and aggregate evidence on labour market volatility.

scholarly journals Entry into working life: Internal migration and the job match quality of higher-educated graduates

2017 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viktor A. Venhorst ◽  
Frank Cörvers
Keyword(s):  
Internal Migration ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Job Match

scholarly journals Match quality of a linkage strategy based on the combined use of a statistical linkage key and the Levenshtein distance to link birth to death records in Brazil.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Carlos Guillen ◽  
Juliana Domenico ◽  
Kenneth Camargo ◽  
Rejane Pinheiro ◽  
Claudia Coeli
Keyword(s):  
Levenshtein Distance ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Discrimination Power ◽  
Live Births ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Small Decline ◽  
One Year ◽  
Janeiro State ◽  
F Measure

ABSTRACTObjectivesTo assess the match quality of a linkage strategy based on the combined use of a statistical linkage key and the Levenshtein distance to link birth to death records in Brazil. ApproachFirst we evaluated the discrimination power of a statistical linkage key adapted from the Australian SLK-581. The modified statistical linkage key (MSLK-781) was based on the concatenation of the 2nd, 3rd and 5th letters of the mother's family name, the 2nd and 3rd letters of the mother's given name, the 2nd and 3rd letters of the mother's middle name, the child's date of birth and sex. We calculated the proportion of records that have a unique value for the MSLK-781 within the 2013 live births (N=224,038 records) and mortality (N=132,646 records) databases for Rio de Janeiro state. We also calculated the joint unique proportion measure based on the product of these two proportions. Second we evaluated the match quality of a linkage strategy based on the combined use of the MSLK-781 and the Levenshtein distance of the mother's name to link the live births database to death records of singleton children younger than one year of age (N=1,488). To assess the match quality we calculated the sensitivity, the predictive positive value (PPV) and the F-measure. ResultsThe proportion of records that have a unique value for the MSLK-781 within the live birth and the mortality databases were, respectively, 97.5% and 98.8%, which yields a joint unique proportion of 96.1%. The match quality measures of the linkage strategy based only on the MSLK-781 were: sensitivity=83.6%; PPV=98.3%; F-measure=90.4%. Combining the agreement on the MSLK-781 with a Levenshtein distance of the mother's name of less than 4 for the record pairs classification eliminated the false-positive matches (PPV=100%) with a small decline in the sensitivity (81.7%) and the F-measure (89.9%). ConclusionUsing the MSLK-781 combined with the Levenshtein distance can be used as a first pass for linking birth to death records in Brazil without having to send pairs of records to clerical review.

scholarly journals Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (11) ◽  
pp. 3303-3338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Fredriksson ◽  
Lena Hensvik ◽  
Oskar Nordström Skans
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Wage Growth ◽  
Job Mobility ◽  
The Other ◽  
Match Quality ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Information Updating ◽  
The Impact

We examine the impact of mismatch on entry wages, separations, and wage growth using unique data on worker talents. We show that workers are sorted on comparative advantage across jobs within occupations. The starting wages of inexperienced workers are unrelated to mismatch. For experienced workers, on the other hand, mismatch is negatively priced into their starting wages. Separations and wage growth are more strongly related to mismatch among inexperienced workers than among experienced workers. These findings are consistent with models of information updating, where less information is available about the quality of matches involving inexperienced workers. (JEL D83, J24, J31, J41, J63, J64)

scholarly journals Effect of feedback on the quality of suicide prevention websites: randomised controlled trial

2010 ◽  
Vol 197 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony F. Jorm ◽  
Julie-Anne Fischer ◽  
Elizabeth Oh
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Consensus Guidelines ◽  
Online Search ◽  
Quality Of Information ◽  
Randomised Controlled ◽  
To Receive

SummaryThere is concern regarding the quality of information about mental health problems on the internet. A trial was carried out to see whether sending feedback to website administrators about the quality of information on their website would lead to an improvement (ACTRN12609000449235). Fifty-two suicide prevention websites were identified by means of an online search. The quality of information about how to help someone who is suicidal was scored against expert consensus guidelines. Websites were randomised to receive feedback or serve as controls. The information on the websites varied greatly in quality. However, feedback did not lead to an improvement.

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