search with observed U.S. time series measures on employment, vacancies, and aggregate output to uncover the cyclical … inversely related to the degree of mismatch in the pool of searching workers and vacancies, given numbers of each, and identify … its movements as scalar shifts in the standard matching function. Given that the model exactly reconciles observed net …

This paper studies amplification of productivity shocks in labor markets through on-the-job-search. There is incomplete … for on-the-job search. Amplification arises because productivity changes not only affect firms' probability of contacting … labor productivity in the U.S. show that standard deviations for unemployment, vacancies and market tightness (vacancy …

frictions and unemployment insurance, when the latter is only imperfectly related to search effort. A balanced social insurance … volatility and persistence of vacancies and unemployment. …

of unemployment and vacancies to negative shocks to the aggregate productivity of labor. …

We use an estimated monetary business cycle model with search and matching frictions in the labor market and nominal … movements in GDP, unemployment, vacancies, and wages in the period from 2007 until 2011. We show that contractionary financial … factors and reduced efficiency in labor market matching were largely responsible for the experience in the U.S. Financial …

A search-theoretic general equilibrium model of frictional unemployment is shown to be consistent with some of the key … either to quit and search for a better job, or continue working. Search generates job offers that agents can accept or reject …