This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched … increasing the number of workers embedded in the social networks can increase the unemployment rate and decrease workers welfare …

necessary induce stickiness in unemployment dynamics. Our endogenous matching technology shows that the effects of networks on …We provide a matching model where identical workers are embedded in ex- ante identical social networks. Job arrival … distribution of unemployment rates across networks. We emphasize that wage dispersion arises endogenously as the consequence of the …

In this paper, the effects of alternatives to finance unemployment benefits on employment and wages are examined in a … model with search generated equilibrium unemployment. It is demonstrated that employment improves if a value--added tax is …

In this study, the Hysteresis Hypothesis that assumes the natural rate of unemployment follows the last period …’s realised unemployment was examined for the Turkish case by using annual data for the period of 1950-1995. The technique used in …

unemployment. Results suggest that the hiring process is driven by a stock-flow rather than by a traditional matching function: the …Monthly panel (1998-2003) data from regional labor offices in Latvia are used to analyze the matching process in a high … unemployment – low labor demand environment and to evaluate the impact of active labor market policy programs on outflows from …