selection) in matching, instrumental variable and control functions methods. (2) It contrasts the roles of exclusion … restrictions in matching and selection models. (3) It characterizes the sensitivity of matching to the choice of conditioning …. (4) It demonstrates the problem of choosing the conditioning variables in matching and the failure of conventional model …

This paper introduces a labor force participation choice into a labor market matching model embedded in a dynamic …

We develop a model in which firms set impersonal salary levels before matching with workers.Salaries fall relative to … recent antitrust caseagainst the National Residency Matching Program in light of our results …

, residing in homogeneous geographic areas, to different formal institutions. Using both a matching-type and a spatial regression …

I explore the estimation of transferable utility matching games, encompassing many-to-many matching, marriage and … matching with trading networks (trades). I introduce a matching maximum score estimator that does not suffer from a … computational curse of dimensionality in the number of agents in a matching market. I apply the estimator to data on the car parts …

We present a picture of the labor market, one with large flows of jobs and workers, and matching. We develop a … determination of wages. We estimate the matching function, using both aggregate data and data from manufacturing and find evidence … of a stable matching process in the data. We examine the joint movements in unemployment, vacancies and wages -the …

employers, as measured by vacancies, are low. A model of matching frictions explains the qualitative responses of the labor …