This paper explores conditions and policies that could affect the matching between labor demand and supply. We identify … findings also show that the matching process is more difficult the higher the share of employees with intermediate levels of … matching include active labor market policies, such as incentives for start-up and job sharing programs. Passive labor market …

General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with endogenous migration flows, trade linkages, search and matching frictions, and skill … heterogeneity. I apply this framework to the case of the Greek emigration wave following the European Debt Crisis. What I find is …

I develop a model of firm-to-firm search and matching to show that the impact of falling trade costs on firm sourcing …

countercyclical current account. A real business cycle model of a small open economy that embeds a Mortensen-Pissarides type of search-matching … interest rate shocks, search-matching frictions increase future employment uncertainty, improving workers' incentive to save …

to analyze how the effects of individual characteristics on job finding and separation rates contribute to heterogeneity … explaining heterogeneity of employment outcomes across age groups, while differences in finding rates are somewhat more important …

heterogeneity, which is robust and can deliver more than two-point wage distributions …