Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20204 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 968
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs. The basic assumption is that high-skill workers can perform both skilled and unskilled jobs, while low-skill workers can only perform unskilled jobs. Our first result shows that the equilibrium with ex-post bargaining is never efficient. Second, under Hosios? (1990) condition we show that high-skill workers are under-valued in equilibrium, while the opposite holds for low-skill workers. Firms therefore tend to create too few unskilled jobs, resulting in a suboptimally high unemployment rate for low-skill workers. We show that these results generalize to environments with more types of agents and different production technologies. Finally, in an extension we derive a tax scheme that restores efficiency and we show how workers? bargaining strength affects unemployment and skill-mismatch.
Subjects: 
matching
ex post bargaining
heterogeneity
efficiency
JEL: 
D61
C78
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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