Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33146 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2061
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is imperfectly observed. In particular, it establishes that these models remain identified even when employment histories are left-censored (i.e. we do not get to follow workers from their initial job out of unemployment), as well as when workers set different reservation wages from one another. We further show that allowing for heterogeneity in reservation can affect the empirical estimates we obtain, specifically estimates of the rate at which workers receive job offers.
Subjects: 
record statistics
on-the-job search
job mobility
reservation wages
JEL: 
J64
C14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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