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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets

Kojima, Fuhito - 2010

doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are … present. We find conditions under which a stable matching exists with high probability in large markets. We present a … mechanism that finds a stable matching with high probability, and which makes truth-telling by all participants an approximate …

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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment

Bils, Mark - 2009

We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and …

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Measuring Job-Finding Rates and Matching Efficiency with Heterogeneous Jobseekers

Hall, Robert E. - 2015

Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …

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Reference-Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations

Eliaz, Kfir - 2013

We incorporate reference-dependent worker behavior into a search-matching model of the labor market, in which firms …

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The cyclical behavior of equilibrium unemployment and vacancies

Shimer, Robert - In: The American economic review 95 (2005) 1, pp. 25-49

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Informal Job Search and Black Youth Unemployment

Holzer, Harry J. - 1986

In this paper I analyze how young black and white unemployed jobseekers use various methods of search, and the employment outcomes which result from their use.The focus is on distinguishing informal search methods (i.e.,friends and relatives or direct application without referral) from more...

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Labor Markets During the COVID-19 Crisis : A Preliminary View

Coibion, Olivier - 2020

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...

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Search in Macroeconomic Models of the Labor Market

Rogerson, Richard - 2010

This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregate labor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. We first consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...

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The Internet and Job Search

Stevenson, Betsey - 2008

This paper examines how the Internet has impacted job search behavior. Examining those who use the Internet for job seeking purposes, I show that the vast majority are currently employed. These employed job seekers are more likely to leave their current employer and are more likely to make an...

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Cash-on-Hand and Competing Models of Intertemporal Behavior : New Evidence from the Labor Market

Card, David - 2006

This paper presents new tests of the permanent income hypothesis and other widely used models of household behavior using data from the labor market. We estimate the "excess sensitivity" of job search behavior to cash-on-hand using sharp discontinuities in eligibility for severance pay and...

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