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The Great Mexican Emigration
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th...
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Endogenous market formation and monetary trade : an experiment
Camera, Gabriele; Goldberg, Dror; Weiss, Avi - 2016
The theory of money typically ignores the fact that the mode of market interaction arises endogenously, and simply assumes a decentralized, bilateral exchange process. However, endogenizing the organization of trade is critical for understanding the conditions that lend themselves to the...
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From Natural Variation to Optimal Policy? The Lucas Critique Meets Peer Effects
Carrell, Scott E. - 2011
We take cohorts of entering freshmen at the United States Air Force Academy and assign half to peer groups with the goal of maximizing the academic performance of the lowest ability students. Our assignment algorithm uses peer effects estimates from the observational data. We find a negative and...
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Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange
Ashlagi, Itai - 2011
As multi-hospital kidney exchange clearinghouses have grown, the set of players has grown from patients and surgeons to include hospitals. Hospitals have the option of enrolling only their hard-to-match patient-donor pairs, while conducting easily arranged exchanges internally. This behavior has...
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The Establishment-Level Behavior of Vacancies and Hiring
Davis, Steven J. - 2010
addition to vacancies, as they vary hires. Building from our evidence and a generalized matching function, we construct a new … matching function, delivers a better-fitting empirical Beveridge Curve, and accounts for a large share of fluctuations in … search, matching and hiring in the labor market …
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Rent-Sharing, Holdup, and Wages : Evidence from Matched Panel Data
Card, David - 2010
When wage contracts are relatively short-lived, rent sharing may reduce the incentives for investment since some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. In this paper we use a matched worker-firm data set from the Veneto region of Italy that combines Social Security earnings...
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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
firm and for the manager. A parsimonious model of matching and incentive provision generates an array of implications that … isolation, can instead be interpreted within a simple unified matching framework …
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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market
Abowd, John M. - 2012
We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...
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The Exact Law of Large Numbers for Independent Random Matching
Duffie, Darrell - 2011
This paper provides a mathematical foundation for independent random matching of a large population, as widely used in … the economics literature. We consider both static and dynamic systems with random mutation, partial matching arising from … search, and type changes induced by matching. Under independence assumptions at each randomization step, we show that there …
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Firm/Employee Matching : An Industry Study of American Lawyers
Oyer, Paul - 2012
We study the sources of match-specific value at large American law firms by analyzing how graduates of law schools group into law firms. We measure the degree to which lawyers from certain schools concentrate within firms and then analyze how this agglomeration can be explained by "natural...
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