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Equilibrium directed search with multiple applications
Albrecht, James W.; Gautier, Pieter; Vroman, Susan B. - 2005
We analyse a model of equilibrium directed search in a large labour market. Each worker, observing the wages posted at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332815
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Equilibrium search with time-varying unemployment benefits
Albrecht, James W.; Vroman, Susan B. - 2001
which identical firms post wages and homogeneous workers search for acceptable offers. We allow for matching frictions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398879
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Wages and employment in a random social network with arbitrary degree distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M.; Soetevent, Adriaan R. - 2006
Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348716
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Wages and Employment in a Random Social Network with Arbitrary Degree Distribution
Ioannides, Yannis M. - 2006
Empirical studies of labor markets show that social contacts are an important source of job-related information [Ioannides and Loury (2004)]. At the same time, wage differences among workers may be explained only in part by differences in individual background characteristics. Such findings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734601
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Equilibrium Search with Time-Varying Unemployment Benefits
Albrecht, James; Vroman, Susan - 2021
which identical firms post wages and homogeneous workers search for acceptable offers. We allow for matching frictions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320912
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Jobseekers' beliefs about comparative advantage and (mis)directed search
Kiss, Andrea; Garlick, Robert; Orkin, Kate; Hensel, Lukas - 2023
their search toward jobs that value the skill in which they score relatively higher - using measures from administrative …, incentivized task, and survey data - but does not increase total search effort. It also raises earnings and job quality, consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014380450
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Cherry-picking in labor market with imperfect information
Feng, Shuaizhang; Zheng, Bingyong - 2009
worker types, both generating assortative matching with a positive but imperfect correlation of worker and firm types. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879343
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Outside offers and bidding costs
Virág, Gábor (contributor) - 2006
This paper provides a search theoretic model with endogenous job creation, and homogenous workers and firms. The model … frictions (including bidding and search costs) converge to zero simultaneously. When bidding costs are small and ex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435452
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Employer learning, productivity and the earnings distribution : evidence from performance measures
Kahn, Lisa B.; Lange, Fabian - 2010
Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008689037
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It's about time : implications of the period length in an equilibrium job search model
Wolthoff, Ronald - 2011
This paper analyzes the role of the period length in a search model of the labor market and argues that it has profound … and wrong conclusions on optimal policy. -- simultaneous search ; on-the-job search ; wage dispersion ; labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425774