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| Title: | | An incentive theory of matching  |
| Authors: | | Brown, Alessio J. G. Merkl, Christian Snower, Dennis J. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CEPR Discussion paper series // Centre for Economic Policy Research: International macroeconomics and labour economics 7283 |
| Abstract: | | This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described through firms' job offer and firing decisions and workers' job acceptance and quit decisions. This approach obviates the need for a matching function. On this theoretical basis, we argue that the matching function is vulnerable to the Lucas critique. Our calibrated model for the U.S. economy can account for important empirical regularities that the conventional matching model cannot. |
| JEL: | | E24 E32 J63 J64 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des IfW Economists Online
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