On the job search in a matching model with heterogeneous jobs and workers

Juan Dolado, Marcel Jansen and Juan F Jimeno

No 813, Working Papers from Banco de España

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of transitory skill mismatch in a matching model with heterogeneous jobs and workers. In our model, some high-educated workers may accept unskilled jobs for which they are over-qualified but are allowed to engage in on-the-job search in pursuit of a better job. We show that this feature has relevant implications for the set of potential equilibria, the unemployment rates of the different types of workers, the degree of wage inequality, and the response of the labour market to shifts in the demand and supply of skills.

Keywords: on-the-job search; skills; unemployment; wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 J24 J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2008-06
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