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An Agent-Based Labor Market Simulation With Endogenous Skill-Demand

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  • S. GEMKOW

    (Department of Business Administration and Economics, Bielefeld University, P. O. Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany)

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This paper considers an agent-based labor market simulation to examine the influence of skills on wages and unemployment rates. Therefore less and highly skilled workers as well as less and highly productive vacancies are implemented. The skill distribution is exogenous whereas the distribution of the less and highly productive vacancies is endogenous. The different opportunities of the skill groups on the labor market are established by skill requirements. This means that a highly productive vacancy can only be filled by a highly skilled unemployed. Different skill distributions, which can also be interpreted as skill-biased technological change, are simulated by incrementing the skill level of highly skilled persons exogenously. This simulation also provides a microeconomic foundation of the matching function often used in theoretical approaches.

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  • S. Gemkow, 2008. "An Agent-Based Labor Market Simulation With Endogenous Skill-Demand," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 19(03), pages 495-508.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:19:y:2008:i:03:n:s0129183108012121
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183108012121
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