Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33640 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1733
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies optimal UI policy from the perspective of worker assignment to heterogenous jobs in an environment of random matching. Workers react to UI policy through job acceptance decisions; firms react to UI policy through wage posting. There is endogenous assortative matching as a result of the fact that UI policy induces a time profile for reservation wages, shifting the labor force towards the more productive firms. The relation between productivity dispersion and UI policy is mediated by the wage posting policies of firms that take both productivity and policy into account. Optimal UI policy is shown to crucially depend on the properties of the firm productivity distribution, such as its variance and skewness.
Subjects: 
productivity
heterogeneity
UI policy
endogenous assortative matching
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JEL: 
E24
J64
J65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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