This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

This paper examines the impact of innovations and wages on the demand for heterogeneous labour. Based on matched data …. This result implies that more flexible wages of the unskilled would reduce the unemployment of this group. Finally, our …

labor market states. In steady-state, we hence have a theory of equilibrium unemployment determined by both matching … of large flows between employment, unemployment and inactivity. Secondly, it shows that unemployment and aggregate wages …

In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen … framework and the search-matching framework (eg. Pissarides, 1990). Second, it improves the correspondence between the … subsequently estimate the model on Danish labour market data using a structural non-parametric estimation procedure. We find that …