Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33517 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1687
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best. This is due to a business-stealing externality. Raising workers' bargaining power resolves this inefficiency. Unemployment benefits are a second best alternative to this policy. We establish simple relations between the losses in production due to search frictions and wage differentials on the one hand and unemployment on the other hand. Both can be used for empirical testing.
Subjects: 
assignment
on-the-job search
search frictions
efficiency
optimal UI benefits
JEL: 
J3
J6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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