Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58497 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6294
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Firms select not only how many, but also which workers to hire. Yet, in standard search models of the labor market, all workers have the same probability of being hired. We argue that selective hiring crucially affects welfare analysis. Our model is isomorphic to a search model under random hiring but allows for selective hiring. With selective hiring, the positive predictions of the model change very little, but the welfare costs of unemployment are much larger because unemployment risk is distributed unequally across workers. As a result, optimal unemployment insurance may be higher and welfare is lower if hiring is selective.
Subjects: 
labor market models
welfare
optimal unemployment insurance
JEL: 
E24
J65
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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