The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … in efficiency in matching unemployed workers and available vacancies. Accounting for labour market segmentation and …

In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The …% of the male and female working populations respectively. The matching methodology allows us to quantify the effect of …

In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen … framework and the search-matching framework (eg. Pissarides, 1990). Second, it improves the correspondence between the …

matching and a variety of methods using propensity score matching. In each case, we consider estimates based on levels of post … propensity score matching is generally most effective, but the detailed implementation of the method is not of critical …

individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two … considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the fraction of very satisfied workers from 53.8 to 58.8 percent …

education induce equal employment opportunities compared to regular vocational training. Using replacement matching on the basis … Ausbildung) voneinander unterscheiden. Durch den Einsatz von replacement matching auf Grundlage eines statistischen aggregierten …

nonparametric matching approach is applied to identify an appropriate control group. For neither of the five incubator locations we …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …