Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool … high volatility of most of the key variables, the negative co-variation of unemployment and vacancies, and the behavior of …

The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …

-finding rates. A search-matching model with endogenous separations and worker heterogeneity in terms of ability has difficulty in …

underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding … from it, generated by matching. …

comovement between matches, unemployment, and vacancies in dynamic labor market models: either by assuming a standard Cobb … negative time trend in estimated matching functions. In addition, the full nonlinear combined model generates highly asymmetric …

Two papers have recently questioned the quantitative consistency of the search and matching models. Shimer (2005) has … argued that a text-book matching model is unable to explain the cyclical variation of unemployment and vacancies in the U …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

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 …

A matching model in the line of Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) is augmented with a low- skill labor market and firing …