A matching function approach is applied to unemployment exit data from a panel of Eastern German labour office … districts since monetary union. With comparable West German data, such a matching function exhibits constant returns, is stable … matching function exhibits increasing returns, and vacancies enter the function insignificantly or with incorrect sign. These …

States. It may be explained by a matching function, for which estimates are presented. Worker flows seem very different from …

considerable cross-country variance. Using data from Czech and Slovak employment districts, a matching function is successfully …

A frontier approach is utilised to estimate a matching function (reparameterised as a Beveridge curve) on data for the …