This paper addresses the large degree of frictional wage dispersion in US data. The standard job matching model without …-the-job search in a stochastic job matching model. Our key result is that the inclusion of variable on-the-job search increases the …

. This model yields a simple relationshipbetween (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii … andallow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for theUS is consistent with an unemployment rate of …

matching rate in the high-productivity sector can then be realized with fewer applications (and consequently fewer coordination …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

Does a country?s level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a … unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of …

We investigate the controversial issue whether unemployment is related to productivity growth in the long run, using U …. Therefore the secular decline of unemployment since the mid 1990s indeed stemmed from higher average productivity growth. The …

This paper addresses the large degree of frictional wage dispersion in US data. The standard job matching model without …-the-job search in a stochastic job matching model. Our key result is that the inclusion of variable on-the-job search increases the …

extension of the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides (DMP) matching model that allows for employed job search and negotiation over … of unemployment. We further find that allowing for on-the-job search markedly changes the quantitative predictions of the … DMP model regarding the impact of firing costs on unemployment and employment flows: ignoring on-the-job search leads one …

. This model yields a simple relationship between (i) the unemployment rate, (ii) the value of non-market time, and (iii) the … and allow for measurement error. The estimated wage dispersion and mismatch for the US is consistent with an unemployment …