This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched …

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor …

all their candidates) only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post Bertrand competition generate the maximum matching on a …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are … quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the … matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important …

extension of the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) matching model that allows for employed job search and negotiation over …

This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of … clusters of regions of particularly intense interregional matching, and examine the effects of German re-unification. After …