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Efficient Search on the Job and the Business Cycle

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  • Guido Menzio
  • Shouyong Shi

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The paper develops a model of directed search on the job where transitions of workers between unemployment, employment and across employers are driven by heterogeneity in the quality of firm-worker matches. The equilibrium is such that the agents' value and policy functions are independent of the distribution of workers across employment states. Hence, the model can be solved outside of steady-state and used to measure the effect of cyclical productivity shocks on the labor market. Productivity shocks are found to generate large fluctuations in workers' transitions, unemployment and vacancies when matches are experience good, but not when matches are inspection goods.

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Paper provided by University of Toronto, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number tecipa-437.

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Date of creation: 19 Jun 2011
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Handle: RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-437

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Keywords: Directed search; On the Job Search; Business Cycles; Unemployment;

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