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"This paper shows that introducing worker heterogeneity into a standard search and matching model can help increase the volatility of unemployment without violating the tight negative correlation between vacancies and unemployment, i.e., the Beveridge curve. In the model, periods of high job destruction and unemployment correspond with periods of more severe mismatch between the demands of firms and the qualifications of job seekers. A more severe mismatch translates into fewer successful employment matches conditional on the number of contacts per firm and, as a result, into a higher expected recruitment cost per worker hired, with adverse effects on incentives to open vacancies."

"We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and wage policies in the public sector on unemployment and education decisions. The effects on the educational composition of the labor force depend crucially on the structure of the labor market. An increase of skilled public-sector wages has a small positive impact on educational composition and larger negative impact on the private employment of skilled workers, if the two sectors are segmented. If there are movements across the two sectors, it has large positive impacts on education and on skilled private employment. We highlight the usefulness of the model for policymakers by calculating the value of public-sector job security for skilled and unskilled workers."