Matching, sorting and wages

Jeremy Lise; Costas Meghir; Jean Marc Robin

doi:10.1016/j.red.2015.11.004

Matching, sorting and wages

Jeremy Lise, Costas Meghir, Jean Marc Robin

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Abstract

We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact of regulation in a labor market with heterogeneous workers and jobs. To achieve this we develop an equilibrium model of wage determination and employment which extends the current literature on equilibrium wage determination with matching and provides a bridge between some of the most prominent macro models and microeconometric research. The model incorporates productivity shocks, long-term contracts, on-the-job search and counter-offers. Importantly, the model allows for the possibility of assortative matching between workers and jobs due to complementarities between worker and job characteristics. We use the model to estimate the potential gain from optimal regulation and we consider the potential gains and redistributive impacts from optimal unemployment benefit policy. Here optimal policy is defined as that which maximizes total output and home production, accounting for the various constraints that arise from search frictions. The model is estimated on the NLSY using the method of moments.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	63-87
Number of pages	25
Journal	Review of Economic Dynamics
Volume	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2015.11.004
State	Published - Jan 1 2016

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This paper has also circulated under the title “Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics”. We have benefitted greatly from comments and questions from Dale Mortensen, Joe Altonji, Thibaut Lamadon, Guiseppe Moscarini, John Moore, Bentley McLeod, Rob Shimer, two anonymous referees and the editor of this journal as well as seminar participants at Berkeley, Chicago, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Indiana, Minneapolis Fed, NYU, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, Wisconsin, UBC, Simon Fraser University, IIES, Stockholm School of Economics, Cergy-Pontoise, Edinburgh, York, Southampton, Bristol, CEMFI, Oslo, Oxford, Tilburg, EUI, Uppsala, Queen Mary, Carlos III, SMU, Central Bank of Turkey, Koc, SITE, NBER summer meeting, SED meetings, Cowles Summer Conference, Crest-Thema SaM, and SOLE meetings in NY. Costas Meghir thanks the ESRC for funding under the Professorial Fellowship RES-051-27-0204 and the Cowles foundation and ISPS at Yale. Jean-Marc Robin gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council through the ESRC Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice grant RES-589-28-0001 , and from the European Research Council (ERC) grant ERC-2010-AdG-269693-WASP . The authors are responsible for all errors or interpretations.

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Mismatch
Search-matching
Sorting
Wage dynamics

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