-matching theory, job creation in a firm should depend on the availability of workers (unemployment) and on the number of job openings … in other firms (congestion). According to efficiency wage and bargaining theory, wages are set above the market clearing … level and employment is determined by labor demand. To compare models, we estimate an encompassing equation for net job …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze bargaining between a firm and a finite set of workers. In particular employment … selected workers then decide whether they want to proceed in bargaining with the firm. Finally, bargaining takes place. In …

In bargaining between two sellers and one buyer on prices and quantities, strategic inefficiencies arise. By … the relative bargaining power of the sellers. …

vacancies in the local labor market, and what impact it has on employment. A greater availability of unemployed workers should … the number of unemployed are not very important. Matching frictions are more important for employment during booms than …This paper studies the probability of filling a vacancy, how it varies with the number of unemployed and number of …

benefits affect individual decisions on absence and search and the implications for employment, unemployment and …The paper presents a model that allows a unified analysis of sickness absence and search unemployment. Sickness appears … unemployed worker may prefer nonparticipation if the disutility of search is amplified by sickness. The decisions governing labor …

receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance … systems, recognizing the role of spousal employment as partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal system involves …

-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment … insurance systems, while recognizing the role of spousal employment as a partial substitute for public insurance. The optimal …

two-sector general equilibrium model featuring matching frictions and worker-firm wage bargaining. Different goods are … both sectors, and (iii) reduces the unemployment rate. The effect of a higher audit rate is less clear. We find that a … ambiguous impact on unemployment and real wages. …

bargaining in the 1980s might have allowed low-productivity firms to survive or increased wage mark-ups, making employment more …Swedish unemployment was very low up to the early 1990s when it rose rapidly. Theoretically, decentralisation of wage … sensitive to shocks. In Swedish plant-level data for manufacturing 1968-1992 relatively less employment is in low …