How Employment (), the Quit Rate (), and the Meeting Rate () Determine
The unemployment utility of the marginal worker, , increases with the firm's employment level () and the employee quit rate (), but decreases with the rate at which the firm meets suitable candidates (). This relationship arises because is determined by the equation . Since the cumulative distribution of unemployment utility, , is a strictly increasing function, the value of must change in the same direction as the ratio .
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