(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching framework, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess …

(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess …

(2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess …

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when …

. Moreover, it is shown that the neglect of endogenous but not observable behavior in the empirical literature on labor matching … leads to systematically biased estimates of the matching elasticities, posing a caveat on the results of previous studies … testing for constant returns of the matching function. The theoretical model presented allows to predict the direction of the …

. Moreover, it is shown that the neglect of endogenous but not observable behavior in the empirical literature on labor matching … leads to systematically biased estimates of the matching elasticities, posing a caveat on the results of previous studies … testing for constant returns of the matching function. The theoretical model presented allows to predict the direction of the …

unemployment rates. To this end, we develop a matching model à la Pissarides (2000) in which homeowners are assumed to be less …

unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …

unemployment benefits in Germany, which increases from 12 months to 18 months at the age of 45, to identify the effect of extended …