When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictions arise because workers typically do not … friction affects network formation, while the second coordination friction affects network clearing. We show that those … that can arise and the number of matches on a given network. Equilibria that exhibit wage dispersion are inefficient in …

In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the … strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a theoretical model we show that the wage differential … in jobs found using networks versus those found using formal channels, decreases as the network becomes stronger. We …

Since July 2004 the job search effort of long-term unemployed benefit claimants is monitored in Belgium. We exploit the … job search is verified. The threat of monitoring increases transitions to employment, but of lower quality. In the less …

This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound …

exposed to an endogeneity bias, which arises from the search behavior of agents on either side of the market. We offer an …

This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which … firm. These findings have important implications in suggesting that job search networks help to reduce informational …

Using a search model for Danish labor market entrants, we are one of the first studies to test whether second …‐generation immigrants have the same job‐offer arrival and layoff rates as ethnic Danes have. We contribute to the search literature by … twins on the basis of parental characteristics and informal network quality. There are big differences before matching, but …

In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral …

-message-based survey of unemployed workers in Germany. We surveyed 6,800 UI recipients twice a week for 4 months about their job search … effort. The panel structure allows us to observe how search effort evolves within individual over the unemployment spell. We … provide three key facts: 1) search effort is flat early on in the UI spell, 2) search effort exhibits an increase up to UI …