Outputs (8)

Worker-firm screening and the business cycle (2025)
Journal Article
Bradley, J. (2025). Worker-firm screening and the business cycle. Review of Economic Dynamics, 57, Article 101272. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2025.101272

To understand the co-movement of vacancies and employment, an equilibrium model with two-sided screening is developed. On one side of the market, both employed and unemployed workers can evaluate multiple job openings simultaneously and decide which... Read More about Worker-firm screening and the business cycle.

Learning about labor markets (2024)
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Bradley, J., & Mann, L. (2024). Learning about labor markets. Journal of Monetary Economics, 148, Article 103612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoneco.2024.103612

We study a general equilibrium model of the labor market in which agents slowly learn about their suitability for jobs. Our model reproduces desirable features of the data, many of which standard models fail to replicate. We explore how, in such an e... Read More about Learning about labor markets.

A job ladder model with stochastic employment opportunities (2021)
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Bradley, J., & Gottfries, A. (2021). A job ladder model with stochastic employment opportunities. Quantitative Economics, 12(4), 1399-1430. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE1394

We set up a model with on-the-job search in which firms infrequently post vacancies for which workers occasionally apply. The model nests the standard job ladder and stock-flow models as special cases, while remaining analytically tractable and easy... Read More about A job ladder model with stochastic employment opportunities.

Labor market reforms: An evaluation of the Hartz policies in Germany (2019)
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Bradley, J., & Kügler, A. (2019). Labor market reforms: An evaluation of the Hartz policies in Germany. European Economic Review, 113, 108-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.12.008

How do workers and firms respond to comprehensive labor market reforms? We use detailed micro data to analyze the German Hartz Reforms through the lens of a structural model of the labor market. These reforms aimed at reducing unemployment, by increa... Read More about Labor market reforms: An evaluation of the Hartz policies in Germany.

Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill (2017)
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Borowczyk-Martins, D., Bradley, J., & Tarasonis, L. (in press). Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill. Labour Economics, 49, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.09.007

In the U.S. the average black worker has a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for high-skill workers. We show that a mode... Read More about Racial discrimination in the U.S. labor market: employment and wage differentials by skill.

Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model (2017)
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Bradley, J., Postel-Vinay, F., & Turon, H. (2017). Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model. Journal of the European Economic Association, 15(6), 1214-1257. https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvw026

We develop and estimate a structural model that incorporates a sizable public sector in a labor market with search frictions. The wage distribution and the employment rate in the public sector are taken as exogenous policy parameters. Overall wage di... Read More about Public Sector Wage Policy and Labor Market Equilibrium: A Structural Model.

Salaires et emploi dans les secteurs public et privé. Différences et interactions (2016)
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Bradley, J., Dickson, M., Postel-Vinay, F., & Turon, H. (2016). Salaires et emploi dans les secteurs public et privé. Différences et interactions. https://doi.org/10.3917/rfe.161.0065

Differences in wages and in employment between the public and the private sectors are not only present in a static comparison. Dynamic features of employment such as returns to experience, wage volatility and job security also exhibit differences acr... Read More about Salaires et emploi dans les secteurs public et privé. Différences et interactions.

Self-employment in an equilibrium model of the labor market (2016)
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Bradley, J. (2016). Self-employment in an equilibrium model of the labor market. IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 5(6), https://doi.org/10.1186/s40172-016-0046-8

Self-employed workers account for between 8% and 30% of participants in the labor markets of OECD countries, Blanch ower (2004). This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium model of the labor market that accounts for this sizable proporti... Read More about Self-employment in an equilibrium model of the labor market.