Seminar Series

2024 - 2025

Speaker: Marc Möller (University of Bern) 

Title: “The Effect of Occupational Choice and Stereotypes on Labor Market Sorting”.

joint with Oleg Muratov (University of Bern)

Date: Thursday, 9 October at 12h00 (Paris Time).

Abstract: We incorporate competition for jobs into an assignment model to investigate the implications of occupational choice for the matching between heterogeneous workers and jobs of differing quality. When occupational choice is without frictions, more able workers choose more (costly) education and workers sort across occupations in a way that induces positive assortative matching. We characterize the distortions—to job-quality, education and workers’ utility—that arise when entry into an occupation is costly for a group of workers, e.g. due to the existence of stereotypes. Our theory reveals that the nature of distortions depends in a systematic way on whether the occupation where workers experience stereotypes offers better or worse opportunities.

Here are links to the speaker’s website and the FEELab website:

https://marcmoeller.ch/

https://sites.google.com/view/feelabtbs/

You are cordially invited to participate in the following seminar of the FEELab, which will take place in Room 727-730, Sebastopol building.

For more information, please contact: Pierre Mella-Barral p.mella-barral@tbs-education.fr or cam-ly.tran@tbs-education.fr