We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical … firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium … where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment and absence of wage dispersion; (ii) an equilibrium where workers …

max-mean wage differential. The latter measure of wage dispersion is more robust than measures based on the reservation … wage, due to the long left tail of the wage distribution. We estimate this wage differential using data on match quality … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …