provide a framework with microeconomic foundations that give rise to matching frictions, which can be used to understand the … indeed, more frequently used aggregate matching technology. Existing differences turn out to be crucial for the empirical …

contradiction between two influential theories. On one hand, in the standard search-matching theory with wage bargaining, hiring … and always gives rise to over-employment. In this paper, we try to reconcile the approaches. A simple matching model with … employment compared to the efficient allocation than in the standard search-matching model. …

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 …

We evaluate the determinants of matching efficiency changes through a stochastic Cobb- Douglas production frontier … firms and workers characteristics. Regional differences in matching efficiency are fairly stable over time and negatively …

macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an …, which is consistent with the pattern implied by matching models with endogenous job destruction. …

By applying a stochastic production frontier approach to the matching process of unemployed and vacancies, this paper … jobs, and of the overall efficiency of job creation. Some crucial determinants of the overall matching efficiency are …

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of … clusters of regions of particularly intense interregional matching, and examine the effects of German re-unification. After …

A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success …