This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …

This paper shows that the German labor market is more volatile than the US labor market. Specifically, the volatility … of the cyclical component of several labor market variables (e.g., the job-finding rate, labor market tightness, and job … vacancies) divided by the volatility of labor productivity is roughly twice as large as in the United States. We derive and …

A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are … impact of commute time on job acceptance decisions. We also use the theory to calculate the bargaining power of workers which …

theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …This paper analyzes the effects of different labor market institutions on inflation and output volatility. The eurozone … could account for volatility differences across member states, but labor market characteristics have remained very diverse …

Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard search models of the labor market, all … selective. -- labor market models ; welfare ; optimal unemployment insurance …

Building a model with three imperfect markets - goods, labor and credit - representing a product's life-cycle, we find … that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The … search models of the labor market fail in one of the two dimensions. Two factors related to goods market frictions generate …

Unemployment may depend on equilibrium in other markets than the labor markets. This paper adresses this old idea by … introducing search frictions on several markets: in a model of credit and labor market imperfections as in Wasmer and Weil (2004 …

labor frictions. Under standard assumptions, theory always implies a motononic negative link between capital-labor ratios …Employment protection (EPL) has a well known negative impact on labor flows as well as an ambiguous but often negative … effect on employment. In contrast, its impact on capital accumulation and capital-labor ratio is less well understood. The …