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Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool … most of the key variables, as well as the negative co-variation of unemployment and vacancies. It offers a workable …
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The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …
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underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …The Beveridge curve depicts a negative relationship between unemployed workers and job vacancies, a robust finding … from it, generated by matching. …
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The picture of U.S. labor market dynamics is opaque. Empirical studies have yielded contradictory findings and debates have emerged regarding their implications. This paper aims at clarifying the picture, which is important for the understanding of the operation of the labor market, for the...
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This paper tests whether aggregate matching is consistent with unemployment being mainly due to search frictions or due … to job queues. Using U.K. data and correcting for temporal aggregation bias, estimates of the random matching function … are consistent with previous work in this field, but random matching is formally rejected by the data. The data instead …
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This paper considers a real business cycle model with search frictions in the labor market and labor supply which is …
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It is increasingly recognized that labour markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter considers why it is sensible to think of labour markets as imperfectly competitive, reviews estimates on the...
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We investigate the effect of employer job security guarantees on employee perceptions of job security. Using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey, we find job security guarantees reduce employee perceptions of job insecurity. This finding is...
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This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment contracts offer severance compensation to smooth...
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This paper is about the labour market consequences of creative destruction with on-the-job search. We consider a … matching model in an economy with embodied technological progress and show that its dynamics are profoundly affected by … allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0 …
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