Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37497
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2010: Ökonomie der Familie - Session: Search and Matching on the Labor Market No. E14-V1
Publisher: 
Verein für Socialpolitik, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper addresses the large degree of frictional wage dispersion in US data. The standard job matching model without on-the-job search cannot replicate this pattern. With on-the-job search, however, unemployed job searchers are more willing to accept low wage offers since they can continue to seek for better employment opportunities. This explains why observably identical workers may be paid very differently. Therefore, we examine the quantitative implications of on-the-job search in a stochastic job matching model. Our key result is that the inclusion of variable on-the-job search increases the degree of frictional wage dispersion by an order of a magnitude.
Subjects: 
Matching
On-the-job Search
Wage Dispersion
JEL: 
E24
J31
J64
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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