The Assignment of Workers to Jobs in an Economy with Coordination Frictions.
This paper studies the assignment of heterogeneous workers to heterogeneous jobs. Owing to the anonymity of a large labor market, workers use mixed strategies when applying for jobs. This randomness generates coordination frictions. Two workers may apply for a particular job, whereas an identical jo...
| Published in: | Journal of Political Economy Vol. 113; no. 5; pp. 996 - 1026 |
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University of Chicago Press
October 2005
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