
handle: 10261/58246
This paper develops a dynamically consistent model of search, matching and bargaining when worker skills decline while unemployed. Long-term unemployment emerges as an endogenous phenomenon. Even with constant returns to matching, multiple Pareto rankable equilibria are possible. Policies to address long-term unemployment are best directed toward prevention (e.g. vacancy creation subsidies) rather than cure (e.g. retraining subsidies). 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Financial support for both authors is gratefully acknowledged from The Leverhulme Trust and for Coles from La Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia.
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