hires show how the hiring process differs across different groups of workers and of firms. Decompositions include employment … to show what part of the residual of the aggregate hiring function can be explained by the composition of vacancies. The …

According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when … unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies. Instead, there are few vacancies when unemployment is high because there is a low … inflow of new vacancies. We construct a simple model with on-the-job search and show that it is broadly consistent with the …

can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real … rate regimes obey common employment adjustment thresholds. …

immigration and a decline in collective bargaining successfully explain occupational employment patterns during the 1990s …

and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage … effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the …

preferences for public sector employment and employers. In fixed effects specifications, we demonstrate that feelings of job …