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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001
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 unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262541
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Wage dispersion and wage dynamics within and across firms
Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Smith, Eric - 2009
This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result. With more than one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268976
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On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers
Dolado, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno, Juan F. - 2003
This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273737
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278021
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Disaggregate Matching Functions
Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
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 unusual due to the scarcity of appropriate data....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762399
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A Test between Unemployment Theories Using Matching Data
Coles, Melvyn G.; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2003
This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … with reference to the design of optimal unemployment insurance programs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271933
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Unemployment Equilibrium and On-the-Job Search
Burgess, Simon M.; Turon, Hélène - 2003
-to-job flows and labour force entries and exits. Employed job search is shown to have a substantial impact on unemployment dynamics … but a negligible one on the level of unemployment. More on-the-job search leads to lower unemployment inflow and outflow …, i.e. a more stagnant unemployment pool. With employed job search, the stock of vacancies is more cyclically sensitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276889
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Severance packages
Postel-Vinay, Fabien; Turon, Hélène - 2011
of unemployment. We further find that allowing for on-the-job search markedly changes the quantitative predictions of the … DMP model regarding the impact of firing costs on unemployment and employment flows: ignoring on-the-job search leads one … to strongly underestimate the negative impact of firing costs on unemployment. …
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Variable search intensity in an economy with coordination unemployment
Kaas, Leo - 2008
account for the empirical relation between the job-finding rate and the vacancy-unemployment ratio, provided that search costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268694
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Do Workers Really Benefit From Their Social Networks?
Fontaine, François - 2004
increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262031