Job Heterogeneity and Coordination Frictions
John Kennes and
Daniel le Maire
Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University
Abstract:
We develop a new directed search model of a frictional labor market with a continuum of heterogenous workers and firms. We estimate two versions of the model - auction and price posting - using Danish data on wages and productivities. Assuming heterogenous workers with no comparative advantage, we find that each model gives a reasonable approximation of the statistical moments of both the wage and productivity distribution. A sensitivity analysis then draws out further implications of the theory. We explain how the feasible matchings between workers and firms changes as the worker moves up the job ladder, how the identification of assortative matching is fundamentally different in directed and undirected search models, how our theory accounts for business cycle facts related to inter-temporal changes in job offer distributions, and how our model could also be used to identify the contributions of specific versus general human capital.
Keywords: Directed Search; Auctions; Wage Posting; On-the-Job Search; Comparative Advantage; Assortative Matching; Business Cycles; Human Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30
Date: 2013-04-18
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