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On-the-Job Search and Sorting

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Pieter A. Gautier () (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Coen N. Teulings () (SEO Economic Research, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Aico van Vuuren () (Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

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We characterize the equilibrium of a search model with a continuum of job and worker types, wage bargaining, free entry of vacancies and on-the-job search. Although on-the-job search reduces the output loss due to frictions, it increases the wage differentials. The decentralized economy with monopsonistic wage setting yields too many vacancies and hence too low unemployment compared to first best, due to a business-stealing externality. Raising workers' bargaining power resolves this inefficiency. Unemployment benefits are a second best alternative to this policy.

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Keywords: assignment on-the job search wage bargaining sorting

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E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution
J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand

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  1. Gautier, Pieter A & Teulings, Coen N, 2005. "How Large are Search Frictions?," CEPR Discussion Papers 5229, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Gadi Barlevy & H. N. Nagaraja, 2006. "Identification of search models with initial condition problems," Working Paper Series WP-06-03, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. [Downloadable!]
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