New Microfoundations for the Aggregate Matching Function.

Empirical studies of the aggregate labor market matching function have favored a Cobb-Douglas functional form, for which there are no microfoundations in the existing literature. I present a new model for the matching process, based on a "telephone-line" Poisson queuing process, which, unl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevens, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2007