Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool …

The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the probability of being in social housing in the UK. In recent … years immigrant households are slightly more likely than natives to be in social housing but once one controls for relevant … household characteristics immigrants are significantly less likely to be in social housing than natives. However, there has been …

Although most UK immigrants are likely to be eligible to apply for social housing, there is no evidence that they have … increase the social housing stock, has reduced the availability of social housing for UK native households. According to … part of the population attracted to social housing has been neglected, but they are wrong to think that this neglect …

performance through housing valuations. This literature consistently finds housing valuations to be significantly higher in places …

description of the way in which labour markets actually work. This paper uses the techniques of search theory to analyse the …

We survey the microfoundations, empirical evidence and estimation issues underlying the aggregate matching function …. Several microeconomic matching mechanisms have been suggested in the literature with some successes but none is generally … accepted as superior to all others. Instead, an aggregate matching function with hires as a function of vacancies and …

This paper analyses the interaction between internal agency problems within firms and external search frictions when … of the wage contracts is positively related to high productivity, low unemployment benefits and high search frictions. …