private sector would lower the unemployment rate and reduce government costs. …

We set up a model with search and matching frictions to understand the effects of employment and wage policies, as well … as nepotism in hiring in the public sector, on unemployment and rent seeking. Conditional on inefficiently high public …-sector wages, more nepotism in public-sector hiring lowers the unemployment rate because it limits the size of queues for public …

We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and … wage policies in the public sector on unemployment and education decisions. The effects on the educational composition of …

-2007 period. We apply propensity score matching and the control function approach in order to analyze the wage gap and the medium …

of the search-matching theory. -- Job Creation ; Involuntary Unemployment ; Search-Matching ; Labor Demand …How well do alternative labor market theories explain variations in net job creation? According to search-matching … theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings …

of the search-matching theory. -- job creation ; involuntary unemployment ; search-matching ; labor demand …How well do alternative labor market theories explain variations in net job creation? According to search-matching … theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings …

Search-matching theory has come to dominate labor economics in recent years, but few attempts have been made to compare … the empirical relevance of search-matching theory to efficiency wage and bargaining theories, where employment is … determined by labor demand. In this paper we formulate an empirical equation for net job creation, which encompasses search-matching …