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 …

workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

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

This paper investigates the macroeconomic effects of short term training measures on the matching processes in West … 2003 to December 2004. The empirical model relies on a dynamic version of a matching function augmented by short term …

, in speeding up the matching process between unemployed and vacant jobs. The analysis is conceptually rooted in the flow …-based view underlying the reforms, estimating the structural features of the matching process. The results indicate that the … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …

and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an … efficiency wage model, we find that there is no Todaro paradox while this is not always true in a search-matching model since a …