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Grade inflation, social background, and labour market matching
Schwager, Robert (contributor) - 2008
based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …
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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets
Coles, Peter A. - 2010
on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a signal of interest to … ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act … one employer, facilitates matches in such markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of …
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Decentralised job matching
Haeringer, Guillaume; Wooders, Myrna Holtz - 2003
unique outcome, the worker-optimal matching. …
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Credible group stability in multi-partner matching problems
Konishi, Hideo; Ünver, M. Utku - 2003
It is known that in two-sided many-to-many matching markets, pair-wise stability is not logically related with the … (weak) core, unlike in many-to-one matching markets (Blair, 1988). In this paper, we seek a theoretical foundation for …-partner matching problem that includes two-sided matching problems as special cases. Under the same preference restriction, we also …
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Matching markets with signals
Kushnir, Alexey - 2009
information between firms and workers and show that costless signaling is actually harmful in some matching markets. Specifically …A costless signaling mechanism has been proposed as a device to improve welfare in decentralized two-sided matching … facilitates match formation. -- Matching Markets ; Signaling …
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Education and lifetime income during demographic transition
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Reuß, Karsten - 2013
The paper studies the power of educational investments in relation to transfers for fostering lifetime income and for reducing income inequality in Germany. The welfare analysis is based on a model of age-dependent human capital accumulation, featuring dynamic complementarities in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732726
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Motivation, resources and the organization of the school system
Albornoz, Facundo; Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cabrales, Antonio - 2016
This paper studies a model where student effort and talent interact with parental and teachers' investments, as well as with school system resources. The model is rich, yet sufficiently stylized to provide novel implications. It can show, for example, that an improvement in parental outside...
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Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2010
This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...
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Mismatch
Shimer, Robert - 2010
This paper develops a dynamic model of mismatch. Workers and jobs are randomly assigned to labor markets. Each labor market clears at each instant but some labor markets have more workers than jobs, hence unemployment, and some have more jobs than workers, hence vacancies. As workers and jobs...
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Measuring job-finding rates and matching efficiency with heterogeneous jobseekers
Hall, Robert Ernest; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - 2015
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