This paper surveys the existing empirical research that uses search theory to empirically
analyze labor supply questions in a structural framework, using data on individual labor …

This book focuses on the modeling of the transitions in and out of unemployment, given the
stochastic processes that break up jobs and lead to the formation of new jobs, and on the …

This paper develops a new method for estimating the structural parameters of (discrete
choice) dynamic programming problems. The method reduces the computational burden of …

This book presents statistical methods for analysis of the duration of events. The primary
focus is on models for single-spell data, events in which individual agents are observed for a …

It is increasingly recognized that labor markets are pervasively imperfectly competitive, that
there are rents to the employment relationship for both worker and employer. This chapter …

This paper examines the dynamic implications of social networks for the labour market
outcomes of refugees resettled in the US A theoretical model of job information transmission …

Generally, structural job search models are taken to be stationary. In this paper models are
examined in which every exogenous variable can cause nonstationarity, for instance …

We study how the marginal welfare gain from increasing the unemployment insurance (UI)
benefit level varies over the business cycle. We do this by estimating how the moral hazard …

We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men have been employed at some
time with an employer for which their father also worked, and 6%–9% have the same …

In the Handbook of Public Economics, vol. 5, top scholars provide context and order to new
research about mechanisms that underlie both public finance theories and applications …