vacancies divided by the number of hirings per month. Second, measure direct effects of recruitment times on employment by …How can vacancy statistics be used to measure friction in job matching and the effects of friction on unemployment …? First, measure deviations from instantaneous hirings by the average duration of recruitment as measured by the number of job …

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 …

We use a novel data set on firm vacancies and job seekers from a Mexican government job placement service to analyze …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …

rates for Colombia for the period 1976 - 2012. The result is the first dataset capturing the evolution of vacancies for … between vacancies and unemployment with a structural change-an outward shift-around 1986. …