In this paper, I consider four determinants of wages: productivity, workers’ bargaining power, competition between employers due to on-the-job search, and search intensity by workers. Workers can increase their job offer arrival rate through costly search. Employers take into consideration the search intensity choices of their employees when the two parties jointly set wages. Using a Nash barga...

In this paper we develop a rich model that describes the labor market behavior of both unemployed and employed workers. Our job search models explicitly models endogenous job search effort and accounts for monitoring of job search behavior of unemployed workers. To estimate the model we use data from a randomized experiment conducted in the Netherlands to evaluate the effectiveness of job searc...

The authors investigate a previously overlooked yet important objective for employee job search--seeking leverage against the current employer. They explore the outcomes and correlates of leverage-seeking search and how it may differ from the more traditional objective for engaging in job search--to change jobs. Results show that leverage-seeking and separation-seeking search objectives associa...