"We consider a random matching model where heterogeneous agents choose optimally to invest time and real resources in … sufficient, for constrained efficiency. We also provide restrictions on the fundamentals sufficient to guarantee that equilibria …

components of matching efficiency and separation rate (shifting parameters) as well as unemployment and vacancies. Cointegration … of and movements along the curve. Thereby, the separation rate is more important than matching efficiency and the two are …

a dynamic matching approach and an inflow sample of UB-II-recipients, I analyse the effects of sequences of One …

deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …

trends in empirical matching functions. We investigate whether these trends simply arise from omitted variable bias … variable bias. As suggested by this result, we present evidence that empirical matching functions can be interpreted as … versions of the law of motion for vacancies: the coefficients in matching functions coincide with the coefficients in the law …

receipt between April 2000 and March 2001. By applying a matching approach that takes timing of events into account, we … identify the ex post effect of UI sanctions. As a robustness check a difference-in-differences matching estimator is applied …