. Moreover, it is shown that the neglect of endogenous but not observable behavior in the empirical literature on labor matching … leads to systematically biased estimates of the matching elasticities, posing a caveat on the results of previous studies … testing for constant returns of the matching function. The theoretical model presented allows to predict the direction of the …

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 framework, 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 …

wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model – even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …

This paper shows that the matching function and the Beveridge curve in the United States exhibit strong nonlinearities … over the business cycle. These patterns can be replicated by enhancing a search and matching model with idiosyncratic …

migrants with a Turkish origin or Central and Eastern European (including Russian) background. Job search theory is used to …

We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in … increase in their prices and in German wages. This mechanism is magnified by the low price elasticity of the demand for German …