prevalence of social networks in job search there is as yet no consensus on the mechanisms for why referrals are so important: an …

increase in the option value of search: with better ability to differentiate offer quality, workers become choosier and … ultimately have better migration experiences. This offers a new perspective on the importance of information and matching …

We study the effect of diminishing search frictions in markets with adverse selection by presenting a model in which …

We study whether there are improvements in worker-firm matching when employers and applicants can credibly signal their … analyze a matching process in which firms fill some of their inter- view slots by invitation and the remainder are filled by …

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

and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an … efficiency wage model, we find that there is no Todaro paradox while this is not always true in a search-matching model since a … decrease in the urban unemployment benefit can increase both urban employment and unemployment. -- efficiency wages ; search-matching …

We study a search model where workers can send multiple applications to high and low productivity firms. Firms that …, the equilibrium outcomes are the same under directed and random search. Allowing for free entry creates a second source of … inefficiency. -- directed search ; efficiency ; coordination frictions …

mechanisms that allow for ex post Bertrand competition generate the maximum matching on a realized network. -- efficiency … ; network clearing ; random bipartite network formation ; simultaneous search …

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 …