With more than 800 million active users on Facebook alone, the privacy issues raised by social networking sites are becoming increasingly important. Over the past few years, the information that users post to social media networks such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter has become the linchpin...

This paper stresses the importance of a specification of the matching function in which the measure of job matches corresponds to the measure of job searchers. In many empirical studies on the matching function this requirement has not been fulfilled because it is difficult to find information...

In this paper I introduce a novel source of residual wage dispersion. In the model, workers are heterogenous in productivity and randomly apply to ex ante identical posted vacancies. Each employer simultaneously meets several applicants, offers the position to the best candidate and bargains...

Although job choice is often considered synonymous with job offer acceptance, this chapter argues that job choice should be reconceptualized as the entirety of the behavioral choices an applicant makes during recruitment. Specifically, applicants are faced with the decisions to apply to...