Using a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) model with noisy signals on worker-firm match quality calibrated on data from 30 US states for 1999 and 2017, Pries and Rogerson argue that improved screening may explain the decrease in short-term employment spells observed in the US labor market....

We build a life cycle model of labor supply that incorporates changes along both the intensive and extensive margin and use it to assess the consequences of changes in tax and transfer policies on equilibrium hours of work. We find that changes in taxes have large aggregate effects on hours of...

The large differences in hours of work across industrialized countries reflect large differences in both employment to population ratios and hours per worker. We imbed the canonical model of labor supply into a standard matching model to produce a model in which both the intensive and extensive...