growth and average productivity growth. Model simulations allow us study the role of dynamic interactions among agents … processes governing the labor market, such as job search by individuals, and matching and bargaining among firms and potential …

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …

Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding … rate and the unemployment rate? In the odel, these fluctuations are driven by movements in productivity. This paper … inestigates the sources of productivity fluctuations that are commonly interpreted s technology shocks. I estimate different types …

) characterize responses of unemployment to productivity changes for a general matching technology; and (3) show how a matching … unemployment responds to productivity changes depends on resources that can be allocated to job creation. Yet, this … characterization has been made when matching is parameterized by a Cobb--Douglas technology. For a canonical DMP model, I (1 …

How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching … wird ein Wachstums-Matching-Modell entwickelt, das durch heterogene Arbeitslose - Kurz- und Langzeitarbeitslose - und bei …