Models of random search, directed search, or stock-ow matching differ substantially in the way they assume that job … seekers and firms behave during the recruitment process. In this paper we identify new patterns about the recruitment … behaviour of firms using the entropy balancing technique and argue that stock-flow matching models - if suitably amended by a …

further drivers of the observed duration patterns, such as human capital depreciation, stock-flow matching, depletion of one …The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well established fact, the reasons are … job applications and job interviews decrease, but job offers (after an interview) increase with duration. A model with …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …

individuals. Standard search theory predicts that an increase in UI benefit generosity, either in terms of benefit duration or … entitlement, has a negative impact on the job search activities of the unemployed increasing their unemployment duration. Despite … the disincentive effect of UI on unemployment duration, UI benefit generosity may also increase job match quality by …