dynamic stochastic search-matching model with heterogeneous workers, where aggregate shocks to productivity fuel up the cycle …

reforms in boosting the German economy. Considering that one of the main objectives of the reforms was to improve the matching … process on the labour market, I use rich, high-frequency, and recent administrative panel data to present new details … regarding the development of job-matching performance before and after the reform years. The results show that matching …

. Considering that one of the main objectives of these reforms was to improve the matching process on the labour market, I use high …-frequency administrative data to present new details regarding the development of job-matching performance from 2000 to 2011. Matching … productivity increased during all reform stages. Increases in matching productivity have become smaller from 2009. The analysis …

-term unemployment in European countries using a panel of 25 European countries over the period 2000-2018. We find that skill mismatches …, labor market matching efficiency, and labor market policies are associated with the incidence of long-term unemployment …

wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …

This paper shows that a search and matching model with idiosyncratic training cost shocks can explain the asymmetric … movement of the job-finding rate over the business cycle and the decline of matching efficiency in recessions. Large negative … tightness. Our model explains a large fraction of the matching efficiency decline during the Great Recession and generates state …

curve in a Markov-switching panel setting with time-varying transition probabilities for the US, Portugal and Spain using … structural indicators which could affect the matching efficiency in the labour market. The results show that the sharp outward …

model match formation. We use German administrative labor market data to show that the matching function correlation solely … based on idiosyncratic productivity and free entry is very close to the empirical matching function. Consequently, we argue … that standard matching function estimations are seriously biased if idiosyncratic productivity plays a role for match …