This paper assesses the trade-off between acquiring specialized skills targeted for a particular occupation and acquiring a package of skills that diversifies risk across occupations. Individual-level data on college credits across subjects and labor market dynamics reveal that diversification...

This paper demonstrates the way in which episodes of hot and cold trading activity can occur in a stock-flow matching market. A market experiences high entry and turnover when potential sellers enter the market knowing that buyers went unsatisfied in the previous trading opportunity. Provided...

This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics with stock-flow matching and on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, a searcher immediately becomes fully informed about the number of viable firms in the stock of job vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result....

We model trading and price formation in a market under the assumption that order arrival and cancellations are Poisson random processes. This model makes testable predictions for the most basic properties of markets, such as the diffusion rate of prices (which is the standard measure of...

This paper studies an environment in which workers accumulate information about employment contacts made while searching on-the-job. Workers use this search capital to improve wages and insure against job destruction. This behaviour generates voluntary and involuntary job-to-job transitions with...