all their candidates) only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post Bertrand competition generate the maximum matching on a …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi …

their match. We study two prevalent approaches for matching within organizations: Centralized assignment by firm leaders and …

unemployment and vacancy rates and the related matching function as proxies for the functioning of the labor market and explores …

provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …

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 … idiosyncratic productivity can explain the observed negative time trend in estimated matching efficiency and asymmetric business …

matching function. One can easily choose a calibration to make the cyclical fluctuation in unemployment as large in the model … model as it is in the data. We show with a simple analytical calculation that in the standard job matching model, one cannot …