This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched … increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

This paper revisits the normative properties of search-matching economies when homogeneous workers have concave utility … optima, non-linear income taxation is a key complement to unemployment insurance. According to the level of the workers …

levels and endogenous involuntary unemployment due to frictions in the labor markets. Redistributive taxation distorts labor … demand and wages. Compared to their efficient values, gross wages, unemployment and participation are lower. Average tax …

We propose a canonical model of optimal nonlinear redistributive taxation with matching unemployment. In our model … efficient values, at the optimum gross wages and unemployment are lower. Average tax rates are moreover increasing in wages. The …

unemployment among job-seekers. Using exact matching on labour market history and personal characteristics we find positive effects … effect of the length is found on unemployment, employment or wages. Overall, the results suggest that receiving a fixed term … contract reduces the risk of future unemployment, and that a longer contract increases the position within the workplace but …

work from unemployment insu rance, we do not find that the weighting method outperforms Cox survivor function predictions. …

wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi … unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth. …