This paper measures the job-search responses to COVID-19 pandemic using real-time data on vacancy postings and job ad views Sweden’s largest online board. First, new drop by 40%, similar US. Second, seekers respond searching less intensively, extent that effective labour market tightness increases during first three months after COVID outbreak. Third, they redirect their search towards severely...

In this article we explain the essential role of controlled experiments in testing job-search models. We derive the testable implications of a finite-horizon job-search model and layout the design of the controlled experiments that we use to test those implications. We present the results of several parametric and nonparametric tests, all conditional on the actual draws of the wage offers. Over...

This paper is about the labour market consequences of creative destruction with on-the-job search. We consider a matching model in an economy with embodied technological progress and show that its dynamics are profoundly affected by allowing on-the-job search. We obtain that the elasticity of unemployment with respect to growth shrinks from 1.63 to 0.13. Moreover, the underlying transmission ch...

In this paper, we apply search theory to ana lyze the determinants of job search success as measured by the wages earned by re-employed male and female Polish workers after a spell of unemployment in 1994-2001. In addition to a general examination of postunemployment earnings, this study focuses on several specific themes. In particular, we investigate (i) if the receipt of unemployment benefit...

A computationally e ective heuristic method for solving the minimum makespan problem of job shop scheduling is presented. The proposed local search method is based on a tabu search technique and on the shifting bottleneck procedure used to generate the initial solution and to re ne the next-current solutions. Computational experiments on a standard set of problem instances show that, in several...