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We examine the matching process using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden. We find that an increase …
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According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when …
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How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …
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business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital … types. We first find that, the model does a good job at matching the cyclical properties of sectoral employment and the wage …
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This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities … over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic …
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Firms and workers predominately match via job postings, networks of personal contacts or the public employment agency, all of which help to ameliorate labor market frictions. In this paper we investigate the extent to which these search channels have differential effects on labor market...
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This paper assesses wage setting and wage dynamics in a search and matching framework where (i) workers and firms on …
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We use the German Job Vacancy Survey to investigate whether firms are able to attract more suitable applicants by offering bargain wages rather than posting fixed wages. Contrary to the theoretical predictions provided by the literature, we find that the offer to bargain over pay decreases the...
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demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers' income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases …
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Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job … behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and argue that stock-flow matching models - if suitably amended by a …
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