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Job Search with Bidder Memories

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  • Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos

    (University of Essex)

  • Menzio, Guido

    (New York University)

  • Smith, Eric

    (University of Essex)

Abstract

This paper revisits the no-recall assumption in job search models with take-it-or-leave-it offers. Workers who can recall previously encountered potential employers in order to engage them in Bertrand bidding have a distinct advantage over workers without such attachments. Firms account for this difference when hiring a worker. When a worker first meets a firm, the firm offers the worker a sufficient share of the match rents to avoid a bidding war in the future. The pair share the gains to trade. In this case, the Diamond paradox no longer holds.

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  • Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos & Menzio, Guido & Smith, Eric, 2009. "Job Search with Bidder Memories," IZA Discussion Papers 4319, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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    Keywords

    wage determination; recall; job search; Diamond paradox;
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    JEL classification:

    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J42 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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