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The authors analyze equilibrium in a labor market wherein it takes time for the workers to contact forms. Workers, assumed identical, repeatedly sell their labor services all through their work lives, choosing their search intensity endogenously. Identical firms attempt to maximize their...

We integrate search theory into an equilibrium framework in a new way and argue that the result is a simple but powerful tool for understanding many issues related to bilateral matching. We assume for much of what we do that utility is less than perfectly transferable. This turns out to generate...

The matching function describes the flow of job creation as a function of the stocks of unemployed and vacancies. Most empirical work tries to identify such a relationship by regressing the flow of matches (aggregated over the month) on the stocks of unemployment and vacancies measured at the...