This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess … (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more … accurate data set for Germany. Their results are confirmed and found to be surprisingly robust. Second, the matching framework …

Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may …

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect … to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal … worker does not internalize the effect of his or her participation on average productivity. …

This paper examines wage dispersion and wage dynamics in a stock-flow matching economy with on-the-job search. Under … stock-flow matching, job seekers immediately become fully informed about the stock of viable vacancies. If only one option …

This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low and high …

wage premia and are perceived to have negative consequences for the output mix and productivity. A small job postings … Russian Ministry of Labour data for all legal migrant applications in 2010 and matching the migrant to the sponsoring firm, we …

productivity. Further, when our model is subjected to skill-upgrading and changes in employee bargaining power, it is capable of … employees' relative productivity, i.e., skill-biased technological change, are unlikely to have caused the increase in income …