Comparison of Optimal Control Solutions in a Labor Market Model



a quadratic programming problem. The MBPC method thence requires more
programming and computational effort than the linear-quadratic approach.

The nonlinear optimization requires the most effort. For the results presented
in Figure 4 the Nelder-Mead direct simplex search algorithm was used. The
algorithm required over 20,000 evaluations of the stacked nonlinear model
to produce these results. Using a quasi-Newton optimization approach the
algorithm failed to reduce the objective function after 100,000 evaluations of
the stacked model.

5 Conclusion

This paper compared three methods of deriving optimal control for the same
nonlinear labor market model. The methods were the standard linear-quadratic
control with a derived linear model and control applied to the nonlinear model;
model based predictive control; and a fully nonlinear optimization with the
model stacked over time. The paper found that for this model the MBPC
produced the best results.

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