relation between matches on the one hand and unemployment and vacancies on the other hand can be the result of different …

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 …

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 …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors …

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. …

in the number of vacancies has a weak effect on the number of unemployed workers being hired: unemployed workers appear … to be unable to compete for many available jobs. Vacancies are filled quickly and there is no (or only weak) evidence … that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies; hiring appears to be determined by labour demand while frictions …