Recently, several studies have analysed active labour market policies by using a recently proposed matching estimator … matching approach per se is no panacea for solving all the problems of evaluation studies, but that its success depends …

both the vacancy- unemployment ratio and employment. We show that the standard version of the Mortensen-Pissarides matching … the matching model with sunk costs, vacancies react sluggishly to shocks, leading to highly realistic dynamics. …

Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate …

first half of the paper, I present an equilibrium matching model where heterogeneous workers and firms learn about match … yields an assortative matching result that predicts a negative correlation between estimated person and firm effects, which … matching model implies a specific structure for the error covariance. I exploit this structure to test whether earnings …