TY - RPRT AU - Albrecht, James AU - Navarro, Lucas AU - Vroman, Susan TI - Efficiency in a Search and Matching Model with Endogenous Participation PY - 2009/Mar/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 4097 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4097 AB - We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect to market productivity, satisfying the Hosios rule leads to excessive vacancy creation. The reason is that the marginal worker does not internalize the effect of his or her participation on average productivity. KW - participation KW - efficiency KW - matching KW - search KW - Hosios rule ER -