A discrete-time stochastic model of job matching

Review of Economic Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 54-79

  Smith, Tony E ^a   Zenou, Yves ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU MAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Endogenous wages; Job matching; Large population approximation; Optimal search intensity; Search

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037288824     PISSN: 10942025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1094-2025(02)00007-8     Document Type: Review

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