TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dolado, Juan J.
AU  - Jansen, Marcel
AU  - Jimeno, Juan F.
        TI  - On-the-Job Search in a Matching Model with Heterogenous Jobs and Workers
        PY  - 2003/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 886
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp886
        AB  - This paper considers a matching model with heterogenous jobs (unskilled and skilled) and
workers (low and high-educated) which allows for on-the-job search by mismatched workers.
The latter are high-educated workers who transitorily accept unskilled jobs and continue to
search for skilled jobs. Our findings show that on-the-job search introduces an additional
source of between and within-group wage inequality. Furthermore, the higher quit rate of
mismatched workers exerts a negative externality on unskilled jobs and weakens the labour
market position of low-educated workers. This last feature changes the effects of skill-biased
technological change and it alters the response of the labour market to shifts in the skill
distribution.
        KW  - skills
KW  - job search
KW  - wage inequality
KW  - unemployment
        ER  -