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 deals with empirical matching functions. The paper is innovative in several ways. First, unlike in most of … the existing literature, matching functions are estimated not only on aggregate, but also on disaggregate levels which is … mismatch and labor market tightness, and therefore provides valuable information necessary for the conduct of labor market …

. 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 …

In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former … not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to … workers displaced through plant closings in the predicted way, and finds evidence consistent with asymmetric information in …