while considered as extremely large in the public debate in Europe. The main argument is based on a fundamental property of …. Two sets of implications are then derived: on one hand, mobility costs are high in Europe and transitions between steady …-states has especially strong adverse effects. Jobs endogenously last longer in Europe than in the US, but when they are destroyed …

This paper examines the empirical evidence regarding the poor performance of the youth labor market in Spain over the …-education, and low intensity of on-the-job training. It also presents a simple matching model with two types of workers ("educated …

We show that equilibrium matching models imply that standard estimates of the matching function elasticities are … basic version of the matching function using aggregate U.S. data from the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS …) suggests that the bias is quantitatively important. -- matching function estimation ; unemployment ; vacancies ; job finding …

We present a Search and Matching model with heterogeneous workers (entrants and incumbents) that replicates the … market has become as volatile as the US one. -- search ; matching ; training ; firing costs ; productivity differentials …

and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …

wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

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

I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …