significantly. This article analyzes the matching efficiency of jobs and workers in U.S. labor markets and its impact on the …

effects of their individual job creation on aggregated search costs. -- Minimum wages ; matching models ; two sectors …

. Moreover, it is shown that the neglect of endogenous but not observable behavior in the empirical literature on labor matching … leads to systematically biased estimates of the matching elasticities, posing a caveat on the results of previous studies … testing for constant returns of the matching function. The theoretical model presented allows to predict the direction of the …

This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function in which the measure of job matches … corresponds to the measure of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been … market. In this paper, we specify and estimate matching functions where the flow corresponds to the correct stock. We use …

, which is consistent with empirical findings of this paper. I calibrate the model by matching the observed referral wage …

and matching model that allows for individual heterogeneity and participation in both self- and wage-employment as well as …