is a necessary and sufficient condition. It simultaneously ensures perfect positive assortative matching, so that single …-crossing property and sorting condition coincide. As the information from signals allows agents to avoid all unnecessary search, this …

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of … the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is … mismatch and labor market tightness, and therefore provides valuable information necessary for the conduct of labor market …

directed search and matching model with endogenous number of establishments and jobs. We find spillover effects that induce …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …

This paper deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of … the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is … mismatch and labor market tightness, and therefore provides valuable information necessary for the conduct of labor market …

results show that the loss in the efficiency of matching in the labor market combined with an increase in the demand in the …