economy. We consider a dynamic matching-model with a declining and an emerging competitive sector. We show that there are two … with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive … layoffs - because in the short run, the high unemployment implied by the massive decrease makes job creation in the …

-term economic outlook, namely the Industrial Production Index and the Unemployment Rate. …

investigate the impact of spatial mismatch on the unemployment rate of ethnic groups using the matching model proposed by Rupert …The unemployment rate in France is roughly 6 percentage points higher for African immigrants than for natives. In the … US the unemployment rate is approximately 9 percentage points higher for blacks than for whites. Commute time data …

payed by rms to their older workers, to encourage them to leave their job early. We use a matching model with endogenous job …

to account for spatial variation in unemployment within big cities. Namely, applying this setting in an urban search … unemployment rate behaves differently. I also determine conditions for which each configuration may appear. I finally prove, the …

characteristics that the analyst does not observe. The social optimum must therefore trade off matching on incomes and matching on … set of feasible matchings and of the socially optimal matching. Then we show how data on the covariation of the types of …