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, depending on the sub-group used. However, post-matching this difference falls to between 3% and 6%. This indicates that the …
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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 …
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Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …
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We show in the framework of a new economic geography model that when labor is heterogenous and productivity depends on the quality of the match between job and worker, trade liberalization may lead to industrial agglomeration and inter-industry trade. The agglomeration force is the improvement...
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A dynamic labor matching economy is presented, in which the unemployed are either entitled to unemployment insurance …
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assortative matching between worker skill and firm technology explains the employer size-wage premium and the exporter wage …
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Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool …
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It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the...
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The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …
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the role of one of the main contenders - the matching of workers and jobs. Using individuallevel data for two large US … states we show that thicker urban labour markets are associated with moreassortative matching between workers and firms … our data. Puttingtogether the production and matching relationships, we show that production complementarity and …
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