This paper characterises optimal unemployment insurance (UI) and optimal tax policy in an equilibrium matching framework where job search effort is unobserved by the Planner. Policy design takes into account congestion externalities (greater job search effort by an individual worker reduces the re-employment rate of other competing job seekers) and thick market externalities (greater job creati...

In the theoretical literature on optimal job search, models have been developed for infinite and finite search horizons, costly and subsidized search, zero and positive discount rates, search with and without recall of past wage offers, and known and unknown wage offer distributions. Much of the literature involves models of search by individual agents, although some papers embed job search in ...

This paper examines the implications of on-the-job search for both short-run dynamics of in‡ation and long-run welfare costs of in‡ation in a sticky price model with labour market search frictions. Both unemployed workers and workers with bad jobs can search. Firms can adjust labour at both intensive and extensive margins. On-the-job search gives rise a strong propagation of monetary policy sho...

Structural equation modeling analyses of data from 2 longitudinal community studies of recently laid-off workers examined the interrelationships and pathways from personal coping resources to job-search intensity and the extent and quality of reemployment at 2 follow-ups (at 6 months and at 12 or 24 months). In both studies, the proposed models for predicting reemployment and reemployment quali...

Research on the effect of social networks on job search outcomes has provided mixed results. Some studies found that the use of social contacts has positive effects on wages and on the other indicators of job quality while some others found negative effects. Previous studies, however, suffered from several methodological limitations such as selecting on the dependent variable or ignoring unobse...

Job search models typically describe jobs in terms of wages without accounting for other characteristics, but empirical evidence suggests non-wage characteristics are an important determinant of job choice. For instance, workers in the NLSY79 report moving from a higher paying job to a lower paying job in 33% of voluntary job-tojob transitions. I estimate an equilibrium-based job search model t...

In the last decade, various approximation approaches, such as dispatching rules, shifting bottleneck heuristic and local search methods, are proposed for the job shop scheduling problem. As one of the local search methods, taboo search provides a promising alternative for the job shop scheduling problem; however, it has to be tailored each time with respect to parameters for every instance in o...

While career-oriented social networking markets (CSNM) such as LinkedIn or XING are increasingly appreciated by a large number of internet users, our understanding of CSNM benefits and factors influencing the intention to use CSNM for a job search is very limited. For theoretical work on CSNM I extend Venkatesh’s et al. UTAUT2 model by presenting a new concept considering a user’s ties based on...