deals with the question whether ALMP improves the matching-process between job-seekers and vacancies and thus increases the … former programme participants. The result from our augmented matching function shows that the lock-in effect is also present … matching process. However, this effect varies largely between different types of programmes. Positive effects occur for long …

trends in empirical matching functions. We investigate whether these trends simply arise from omitted variable bias … variable bias. As suggested by this result, we present evidence that empirical matching functions can be interpreted as … versions of the law of motion for vacancies: the coefficients in matching functions coincide with the coefficients in the law …

"This paper refers to an analysis of matching processes in occupational labour markets in terms of classes of jobs that … on the assumption of separate occupational labour markets. This assumption suggests that job search and matching … cross-sectional dependency lags for regressors to test the hypothesis that job search and matching occur across occupational …

components of matching efficiency and separation rate (shifting parameters) as well as unemployment and vacancies. Cointegration … of and movements along the curve. Thereby, the separation rate is more important than matching efficiency and the two are …