firms consummating “sub optimal” matches.

We present a tractable equilibrium job search model of individual worker careers allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. We estimate our structural model on a panel of Danish matched employer-employee data and use it to analyze the...

We develop a stochastic model of random search on the job, with ex-ante heterogeneous workers and firms and aggregate productivity shocks in which firms make state contingent offers and counter offers to workers. The model delivers rich dynamics in which the distributions of unemployed workers,...

We develop an empirical search-matching model with productivity shocks so as to analyze policy interventions in a labour market with heterogeneous agents. To achieve this we develop an equilibrium model of wage determination and employment, which is consistent with key empirical facts. As such...

We study the macrodynamics of sorting between workers and firms.

In this paper we design a search-matching models similar to that can both explain the formation of couples and select the equilibrium on the curve of optimal contracts. We study identification from cross sections. The model is non parametrically estimated using the SIPP data.

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are aected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the eect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

Recent research has emphasized the key importance of the equilibrium allocation of heterogeneous workers into heterogeneous jobs or occupations as a determinant of economic efficiency. Most of the literature on this subject envisions worker (re-)allocation as occurring between employers. Yet,...

We present a tractable equilibrium job search model of individual worker careers allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. We estimate our structural model on a panel of Danish matched employer-employee data and use it to analyze the...

Job search models of the labor market hypothesize a very tight correspondence between the determinants of labor turnover and individual wage dynamics on one hand, and the determinants of wage dispersion on the other. This paper offers a systematic examination of whether this correspondence is...