On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogeneous Jobs and Workers

Juan Dolado, Juan F Jimeno and Marcel Jansen

No 4094, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: This paper considers a matching model with heterogeneous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and workers (low- and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers. The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to search for skilled jobs. Our findings show that on-the-job search introduces an additional source of between- and within-group wage inequality. Furthermore, the higher quit rate of mismatched workers exerts a negative externality on unskilled jobs and weakens the labour market position of low-educated workers. This last feature changes the effects of skill-biased technological change and it alters the response of the labour market to shifts in the skill distribution.

Keywords: Job search; Skills; Unemployment; Wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J63 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-10
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