matching approach, we find that job exit rates are initially much higher if the employment spell began with an FTC. However …

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 framework, 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 …

. 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 …

. -- Wage Rigidity ; Search and Matching Model ; Business Cycle …

This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and … the type of algorithm. We implement optimal full matching a fully efficient algorithm and present a framework for … that decisions regarding the matching algorithm depend on the structure of the data: In the case of strong selection into …

This paper investigates the method of matching regarding two crucial implementation choices, the distance measure and … the type of algorithm. We implement optimal full matching - a fully efficient algorithm - and present a framework for … that decisions regarding the matching algorithm depend on the structure of the data: In the case of strong selection into …

's. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock … hypotheses are derived. The findings suggest that the signaling model may indeed predict the observed changes in the schooling …