increase in the option value of search: with better ability to differentiate offer quality, workers become choosier and … ultimately have better migration experiences. This offers a new perspective on the importance of information and matching …

matching or information revealed by others' behaviours, or to endogenous effects generated by bargaining within marriage. A … in individual effects. As such the correlation in the raw smoking data is consistent with positive assortative matching … in marriage over smoking, rather than bargaining within the couple or social learning. -- smoking ; matching ; bargaining …

mechanisms that allow for ex post Bertrand competition generate the maximum matching on a realized network. -- efficiency … ; network clearing ; random bipartite network formation ; simultaneous search …

and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy that consists in decreasing the urban unemployment benefit. In an … efficiency wage model, we find that there is no Todaro paradox while this is not always true in a search-matching model since a … decrease in the urban unemployment benefit can increase both urban employment and unemployment. -- efficiency wages ; search-matching …

-ability workers, which job-seekers can use to direct their search and tailor their wage bid. Introducing such messages leads - under … easily condition their search on this information. Preferences were collected for all employers but only treated employers … talent matching. …

In this paper, we present a directed search model of the housing market. The pricing mechanism we analyze reflects the …. Our model offers a new way to look at the housing market from a search-theoretic perspective. In addition, we contribute … and (ii) has the potential to signal seller type. -- Directed search ; housing …

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban … housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steadystate equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a … effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search …