This paper assesses the trade-off between acquiring specialized skills targeted for a particular occupation and acquiring a package of skills that diversifies risk across occupations. Individual-level data on college credits across subjects and labor market dynamics reveal that diversification...

This paper demonstrates the way in which episodes of hot and cold trading activity can occur in a stock-flow matching market. A market experiences high entry and turnover when potential sellers enter the market knowing that buyers went unsatisfied in the previous trading opportunity. Provided...

This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics with stock-flow matching and on-the-job search. Under stock-flow matching, a searcher immediately becomes fully informed about the number of viable firms in the stock of job vacancies. If only one option is available, monopsony wages result....

This paper demonstrates the way in which stock-flow matching with endogenous seller entry generates hot and cold spells in house sales. Potential sellers know the number of bidders remaining from the last house sale. If two or more bidders remain, the seller obtains the gains to trade through...