I analyze the matching process in the Spanish labor market from 1994-2005. I use monthly registered unemployment data … queuing model, which is the most relevant description of the labor market matching process in Spain, according to the …

I analyze the matching process in the Spanish labor market from 1994-2005. I use monthly registered unemployment data … queuing model, which is the most relevant description of the labor market matching process in Spain, according to the …

aligning these blocks into a bootstrap sample. Recently, several matching schemes for the block bootstraps have been suggested … to improve its performance by reduction of bias [Bernoulli 4 (1998), 305]. The matching schemes are usually achieved by … aligning with higher likelihood those blocks which match at their ends. The kernel matching scheme we consider here takes some …