When workers send applications to vacancies they create a bipartite network. Coordination frictions arise if workers … and firms only observe their own links. We show that those frictions and the wage mechanism are in general not independent …. Only wage mechanisms that allow for ex post competition generate the maximum matching on a realized network. We show that …

find robust evidence of fat tails in large cities. Big cities have big inequality. This pattern of spatial sorting is …

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality … dramatic rise in West German wage inequality. Our estimates suggest that the increasing variability of West German wages has … workers to establishments explain a large share of the rise in inequality along all three dimensions. …

This paper quantifies the impact of the Hartz reforms on matching efficiency, using monthly SOEP gross worker flows … the outflow rate (job finding) has been steadily increasing. This indicates that matching efficiency has improved … substantially in recent years. Results from an estimated matching function - pointing to efficiency gains of more than 20 …

the matching process. We show that both modes of wage determination coexist in the German labor market, with about two …

This paper develops a labour market matching model with heterogeneous firms, on-thejob search and referrals. Social … other climb a wage ladder. On-the-job search is then intensified and wage inequality is reduced as workers employed in high …

effective way to increase employment probabilities and income of participants. Most of the studies are using matching estimators …

perform matching estimations to analyse the treatment effect on the treated. In the cross-section estimation, we find …-participants. Therefore, we combine matching with difference-in-difference estimation (to control for unobserved heterogeneity), Doing so, we … matching estimation can be decomposed into a causal effect (6%-points), correlated unobserved heterogeneity and negative spill …