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Strategic wage setting and coordination frictions with multiple applications

Gautier, Pieter; Moraga-González, José Luis - 2004

We examine wage competition in a model where identical workers choose the number of jobs to apply for and identical firms simultaneously post a wage. The Nash equilibrium of this game exhibits the following properties: (i) an equilibrium where workers apply for just one job exhibits unemployment...

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Learning on the job and the cost of business cycles

Walentin, Karl; Westermark, Andreas - 2018 - Revised June 2018

vacancies implies, via the concavity of the matching function, that business cycles reduce the average number of new jobs and …

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Job placement agencies in an artificial labor market

Wozniak, Marcin - 2016

In this paper, an agent-based search and matching (ABSAM) model of a local labor market with heterogeneous agents and …

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Strategic Referral and On-the-Job Search Equilibrium

Moon, Ji-Woong - 2019

, which is consistent with empirical findings of this paper. I calibrate the model by matching the observed referral wage …

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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

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Labour market effects of digital matching platforms : experimental evidence from sub-Saharan Africa

Jones, Sam; Sen, Kunal - 2022

Can digital labour market platforms reduce search frictions in either formal or informal labour markets? We study this question using a randomized experiment embedded in a tracer study of the work transitions of graduates from technical and vocational colleges in Mozambique. We implement an...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013259834

Occupation-specific matching efficiency

Dengler, Katharina; Stops, Michael; Vicari, Basha - 2016

Based on rich administrative data from Germany, we address the differences in occupation specific job-matching …) in an occupation and the diversity of tasks in an occupation. We find that the matching efficiency improves with higher … positive or negative effects on the matching efficiency. We discuss the conditions under which the empirical results can be …

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On-the-job search and sorting

Gautier, Pieter; Teulings, Coen N.; Vuuren, Aico van - 2005

This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a...

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The Temptation of Social Networks under Job Search Frictions

Matsuda, Norihiko; Nomura, Shinsaku - 2022

-matched jobs are less affordable and rewarding for them. As a consequence, matching through social networks result in low wages and …

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Equilibrium search with time-varying unemployment benefits

Albrecht, James W.; Vroman, Susan B. - 2001

which identical firms post wages and homogeneous workers search for acceptable offers. We allow for matching frictions and …

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