We examine the matching process using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden. We find that an increase …

The aggregate matching (hiring) function relates gross hires to labor market tightness. Decompositions of aggregate …

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms …

matching. The effects of a change of the exogenously given graph (constraints) are investigated. Specifically, we examine to … what extent individuals gain or lose from relaxing restrictions on matching. Sabotage of particular matches or location …

This article examines unemployment disparities and efficiency in a densely populated economy with two job centers and … workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …

Stable matchings may fail to exist in the roommate matching problem, both when utility is transferable and when it is … not. We show that when utility is transferable, the existence of a stable matching is restored when there is an even … individuals of any given type is large enough there always exist “quasi-stable” matchings: a stable matching can be restored with …

concerns. Instead of exogenously restricting transfers on a matching market, we introduce a desideratum based on fairness …

idiosyncratic productivity can explain the observed negative time trend in estimated matching efficiency and asymmetric business …There is strong empirical evidence for Cobb-Douglas matching functions. We show in this paper that this widely found … underlying mechanisms. Obviously, it can be generated by assuming a Cobb-Douglas matching function. Less obvious, the same …