Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/86600 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 05-070/3
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
This paper characterizes the equilibrium for a large class of search models with two-sided heterogeneity and on-the-job search. Besides the well-known congestion externalities, we show that on-the-job search in combination with monopsonistic wage setting without commitment creates a business-stealing externality. In the absence of congestion effects, this leads to excessive vacancy creation. Under wage setting with commitment this externality is absent because when posting a wage, firms take into account the expected productivity of future workers in their current jobs. If firms are able to make and respond to counteroffers, then they will not have to pay no-quit premia and this also leads to excessive vacancy creation.
Subjects: 
assignment
on-the job search
wage bargaining
sorting
JEL: 
E24
J21
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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