An Empirical Equilibrium Job Search Model With Search on the Job and Heterogeneous Workers and Firms

In this article we present and estimate a synthesis of previous equilibrium search models, allowing for continuous distributions of workers' opportunity costs of employment as well as firms' productivities. The model allows for on‐the‐job search, and we assume that job offer arrival rates for workers are independent of their labor‐market state. We derive the theoretical implications of these assumptions, we provide simulations, and we develop a semiparametric estimation procedure that we apply to a dataset of individual labor‐market histories.