We develop a dynamic general equilibrium model where workers can engage in search while on the job. We show that on … fluctuations of unemployment, vacancies, and labor productivity whose relative magnitudes replicate the data. A standard search and … matching model suggests much lower volatitilities of these variables. Intuitively, in a boom, rising search activity on the job …

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in industries with greater comparative advantage. This …This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given … industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched worker-firm data from Sweden, we find strong …

matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous … impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched worker-firm data from 1995 – 2005 with tariff data to test these … hypotheses. The data cover 94 sectors subject to international competition and includes all firms with at least 20 employees. Our …

Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness- related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … blue-collar workers' sickness absences was abolished (firms did not receive a similar refund for their white-collar workers …

wage equation on data for aggregate manufacturing wages in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden from the mid 1960s to the …