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explanations for) positive assortative matching. …
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We develop a life-cycle model of the labor market in which different worker-firm matches have different quality and the assignment of the right workers to the right firms is time consuming because of search and learning frictions. The rate at which workers move between employment, employment and...
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simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. We structurally estimate the search cost distribution, the implied matching …
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I study a dynamic search-matching model with two-sided heterogeneity, a production complementarity that induces labor … market sorting, and aggregate shocks. In response to a positive productivity shock, incentives to sort increase ….S. labor market data and produces realistic degrees of wage dispersion and labor market sorting. …
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The costs of searching for a job vacancy are typically associated with friction that deters or delays employment of potentially productive individuals. We demonstrate that in a labor market with moral hazard where effort is noncontractible, job search costs play a positive role, whose effect may...
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This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for partners in the marriage market and switch between...
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