I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on men`s and women`s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the Italian Labor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas (66 per cent of the...

We present a simple model where unemployment benefits are determined in an economy in which there is endogenous delay in finding a job so that workers desire insurance against the possibility of unemployment.

We construct an equilibrium random matching model of the labour market, with endogenous market participation and a general matching technology that allows for market size effects: the job-finding rate for workers and the incentives for participation change with the level of unemployment. In...

There has been a surge in the number of employed people looking for another job in Britain in the last twenty years. In this paper we present the first time series analysis of on-the-job search. Vacancies are a significant explanatory variable in equation but unemployment is not. We interpret...

In this paper we develop a dynamic structural life-cycle model of labor supply behavior which fully accounts for the effects of income tax and transfers on labor supply incentives.  Additionally, the model recognizes the demand side driven rationing risk that might prevent individuals from...

In a matching model of the labour market in which employers and job seekers have to engage in a costly serach process to create a match, we show that on-the-job search ceteris paribus reduces the unemployment outflow rate. We derive this result for two alternative assumptions as to the relative...

In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment, fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance.  The model features a detailed specification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefits which depend on an...