Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model

European Economic Review

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 909-936

  Yashiv, Eran ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Business cycles; Labor market flows; Matching; Search; U.S. labor market; Vacancies

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC THEORY; LABOR MARKET; MACROECONOMICS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33646469094     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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