An empirical model of wage dispersion with sorting

J Bagger, R Lentz - The Review of Economic Studies, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We estimate an equilibrium on-the-job search model with endogenous search intensity.
Workers differ by skill, firms by productivity. Workers respond to mismatch by intensive …

[PDF][PDF] The search costs of inflation

L Pilossoph, J Ryngaert, J Wedewer - 2024 - janeryngaert.github.io
What are the costs of inflation in the labor market? When wages are set nominally, inflation
leads to reduced purchasing power, which prompts workers to search for other jobs in order …

[PDF][PDF] Competitive or Random Search?

R Lentz, ER Moen - 2017 Meeting Papers, 2017 - red-files-public.s3.amazonaws.com
We set up a search model with on-the-job search that spans random and competitive search
as well as intermediate cases with partially directed search. Firms are heterogeneous in …

Informal rungs on the job ladder: Theory and evidence from Brazil

C Seminario Amez - 2021 - knowledge.uchicago.edu
This dissertation studies a labor market where heterogeneous workers climb a job ladder
with informal and formal rungs. In this environment, the incidence of informal jobs in a …

[PDF][PDF] Job Search, Raises, and Inflation

L Pilossoph, JM Ryngaert, J Wedewer - 2023 - janeryngaert.github.io
How does inflation transmit to changes in nominal wages? We proposal a model of onthe-
job search in which wages are negotiated in nominal terms and fixed for the duration of the …

[PDF][PDF] Labor income shocks along the business cycle

J Pascal - 2019 - julienpascal.github.io
This paper analyzes the determinants of labor income shocks along the business cycle. My
main finding is that sorting between firms and workers is a key component of idiosyncratic …

[PDF][PDF] Declining Business Dynamism and Worker Mobility

C Bryson - 2022 - wcarterbryson.github.io
This paper studies the consequences of the recent decline in business dynamism in the
United States for the labor market. Firm entry rates declined precipitously in recent decades …

Income variability and selection of the pension system

B Öztürk Göktuna - Managerial and Decision Economics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a simple two‐period, game theoretic set‐up with heterogeneous agents
to analyse individual selection of a pension scheme by different categories of agents. Agents …