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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 …

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Scale Effects in Markets with Search

Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2003

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

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Strategic Hiring Behavior in Empirical Matching Functions

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2001

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

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Equilibrium Directed Search with Multiple Applications

Albrecht, James; Gautier, Pieter A.; Vroman, Susan - 2003

We analyze a model of directed search in which unemployed job seekers observe all posted wages. We allow for the possibility of multiple applications by workers and ex post competition among vacancies. For any number of applications, there is a unique symmetric equilibrium in which vacancies...

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International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US

Rendón, Sílvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2007

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of the migration process....

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Job search and job finding in a period of mass unemployment: Evidence from high-frequency longitudinal data

Krueger, Alan B.; Mueller, Andreas - 2011

This paper presents findings from a survey of 6,025 unemployed workers who were interviewed every week for up to 24 weeks in the fall of 2009 and spring of 2010. Our main findings are: (1) the amount of time devoted to job search declines sharply over the spell of unemployment; (2) the...

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Variable search intensity in an economy with coordination unemployment

Kaas, Leo - 2008

This paper analyzes an urn-ball matching model in which workers decide how intensively they sample job openings and …

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Efficiency in a search and matching model with endogenous participation

Albrecht, James; Navarro, Lucas; Vroman, Susan - 2009

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …

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Life-cycle equilibrium unemployment

Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - 2008

This paper develops a life-cycle approach to equilibrium unemployment. Workers only differ respectively to their distance from deterministic retirement. A non age-directed search equilibrium is then typically featured by increasing (decreasing) firing (hiring) rates with age and a hump-shaped...

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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 …

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