This paper studies how compositional changes among the unemployed and the matching efficiency in the labor market …. Using detailed micro-data on individuals and establishments for the period 2001-2024, we find that the decreasing matching … efficiency in the labor market over the period 2007-2019 was driven by a increased dispersion of matching rates across local …

The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … worker heterogeneity, can explain 24% of movements in the matching efficiency over the period between 2001Q3 and 2014Q3. …

The matching efficiency of the standard matching function is known to follow a pro-cyclical pattern. An observed … rightward shift in the UK's Beveridge Curve after the Great Recession, suggests a decrease in the matching efficiency between … worker heterogeneity, can explain 24% of movements in the matching efficiency over the period between 2001Q3 and 2014Q3. …

, labor market matching efficiency, and labor market policies are associated with the incidence of long-term unemployment …