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 …

whether changes in matching frictions can explain the large and persistent increase in Mexican unemployment after the 2008 … global financial crisis. We find evidence of a statistically signicant reduction in the efficiency of the matching function … unemployment rate. Hence, these results suggest that changes in matching frictions cannot explain most of the increase in …

model match formation. We use German administrative labor market data to show that the matching function correlation solely … based on idiosyncratic productivity and free entry is very close to the empirical matching function. Consequently, we argue … that standard matching function estimations are seriously biased if idiosyncratic productivity plays a role for match …

model match formation. We use German administrative labor market data to show that the matching function correlation solely … based on idiosyncratic productivity and free entry is very close to the empirical matching function. Consequently, we argue … that standard matching function estimations are seriously biased if idiosyncratic productivity plays a role for match …

We show that in micro data, as well as in a search and matching model with endogenous separations and rigid wages …

We show that in micro data, as well as in a search and matching model with endogenous separations and rigid wages …

In this paper, an agent-based search and matching (ABSAM) model of a local labor market with heterogeneous agents and …

business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital … types. We first find that, the model does a good job at matching the cyclical properties of sectoral employment and the wage …

business cycle model with search and matching frictions. We extend the canonical model by including capital … types. We first find that, the model does a good job at matching the cyclical properties of sectoral employment and the wage …

rate is endogenous, the job matching process consists of three rounds. In the first and the second respectively the short … Trennungsrate des Modells ist endogen, der Matching Prozeß umfasst drei Phasen. In der ersten und zweiten suchen jeweils die …