This paper develops a tractable job search model with information friction to analyze the underlying link between the performance-based compensation scheme and labor market fluctuations. Workers privately learn their match quality upon starting the job and keep searching for better paying jobs....

This paper develops a tractable multi-sector endogenous growth model with labor market friction and human capital accumulation to analyze the underlying link between economic growth and labor market institutions. The model, calibrated based on the Japanese structural transformation episodes,...

This paper, motivated by the so-called North-South problem in trade, analyzes ex ante trade preferences and the source of potential political conflicts regarding trade lib- eralization. Developing a dynamic extension of the traditional Heckscher-Ohlin model with imperfect labor mobility and...

This paper analyzes the coexistence of on-the-job (general) training and on-the-job search in a frictional labor market where firms post skill-dependent labor contracts to preemptively back-load compensation after training. The back-loaded compensation scheme discourages trained workers'...