This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …

-reported information close to the date of completion of the qualification, and recall information ten years after completion. We are in the …

estimates, based on propensity score matching, are imprecise due to the thinness of the common support. …

We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information …

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 …