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Kohlbrecher, Britta; Merkl, Christian; Nordmeier, Daniela - 2016

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 … contacts is an important driver of the elasticity of the job-finding rate with respect to market tightness. Accounting for …

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The Beveridge curve and labour market flows : a reinterpretation

Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2019

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when …

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Long-term changes in married couples' labor supply and taxes : evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2018

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply...

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Sorting through cheap talk : theory and evidence from a labor market

Horton, John J.; Johari, Ramesh; Kircher, Philipp - 2024

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Disaggregating the matching function

Diamond, Peter A.; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2016

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

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How broadband Internet affects labor market matching

Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2019 - This version: December 19, 2019

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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Returns to On-the-Job Search and the dispersion of wages

Gottfries, Axel; Teulings, Coen N. - 2017

A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last...

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Gender-specific application behaviour, matching, and the residual gender earnings gap

Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2025

This paper examines how gender-specific application behaviour, firms' hiring practices, and flexibility demands relate to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are less likely than men to apply to high-wage firms with high...

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Capital market institutions and venture capital : do they affect unemployment and labour demand?

Fehn, Rainer; Fuchs, Thomas - 2003

This paper analyses the influence of the capital market on the labour market. Especially the impact of start-up financing on the structure of unemployment is of interest. We use a cross-country panel data analysis to examine how venture capital investment influences disaggre-gate unemployment....

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The matching process : search or mismatch?

Gottfries, Nils; Stadin, Karolina - 2017

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

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