Add to ORKGEmpirical evidence show that there is a negative relation between policies that accelerate the matching process in labor market and "within-group " wage inequality. We apply the standard "search and matching " framework to construct a labor market model with ex-ante heterogeneous workers, so as to examine and interpret this phenomenon. We show that a composition effect working through the effective rate of employment opportunities (decision pattern through which individuals accept or reject jobs in which they are less specialized) is responsible for the increase in within group inequality as matching process is accelerated. I would like to thank Dr. Eric Smith, Dr. Adrian Masters and an anonymous referee for useful comme...
International audienceIn the US, black workers spend more time in unemployment, lose their jobs more...
In the labor market, statistical discrimination occurs when employers’ beliefs about workers’ behavi...
Shimer (2005) argues that the standard random search model cannot generate the observed cyclical mov...
This paper considers a matching model with heterogeneous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (l...
This paper presents a model in which firms and workers must engage in costly search to find a produc...
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seminar participants at Georgetown University and LaCEa 2003 and an anonymous referee for valuable c...
This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers ( l...
This paper examines the cyclical properties of employment rates in a search and matching model that ...
(First version: October 2010) The matching function a key building block in models of labor market f...
The matching function -a key building block in models of labor market frictions- implies that the jo...
The author constructs an equilibrium search model where some employers have a distaste for hiring mi...
We present a two-sided search model where agents differ by their human capital endowment and where w...
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lo...
This paper examines wage inequality in the context of a Burdett-Mortensen (1998) model that is exten...
International audienceIn the US, black workers spend more time in unemployment, lose their jobs more...
In the labor market, statistical discrimination occurs when employers’ beliefs about workers’ behavi...
Shimer (2005) argues that the standard random search model cannot generate the observed cyclical mov...
This paper considers a matching model with heterogeneous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (l...
This paper presents a model in which firms and workers must engage in costly search to find a produc...
This paper develops a search model with discrimination where some jobs are con-strained by equal-wag...
seminar participants at Georgetown University and LaCEa 2003 and an anonymous referee for valuable c...
This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers ( l...
This paper examines the cyclical properties of employment rates in a search and matching model that ...
(First version: October 2010) The matching function a key building block in models of labor market f...
The matching function -a key building block in models of labor market frictions- implies that the jo...
The author constructs an equilibrium search model where some employers have a distaste for hiring mi...
We present a two-sided search model where agents differ by their human capital endowment and where w...
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lo...
This paper examines wage inequality in the context of a Burdett-Mortensen (1998) model that is exten...
International audienceIn the US, black workers spend more time in unemployment, lose their jobs more...
In the labor market, statistical discrimination occurs when employers’ beliefs about workers’ behavi...
Shimer (2005) argues that the standard random search model cannot generate the observed cyclical mov...