of potential alternative partners by moving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danish … couples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay in the city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who married outside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …

distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …

additional risk: low future wages if mobility costs preclude search in the appropriate sector. This introduces a new role for …We construct a multi-sector search and matching model where the unemployed receives idiosyncratic productivity shocks … that make working in certain sectors more productive than in the others. Agents must decide which sector to search in and …

This Paper demonstrates that women search longer for their first or second husband in cities with higher male wage … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … search longer for a husband. …

is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the …

Many countries impose restrictions on some immigrants' job mobility, likely reducing their wages. We quantify such …

This paper discusses the interrelations among wealth, reservation wages and search effort. A theoretical job search … model predicts wealth to affect reservation wages positively, and search effort negatively. Subsequently, reduced form … equations for reservation wages and search intensity take these theoretical results to the data. The data used is a Dutch panel …

costly job creations. However, these search efforts increase competition among employers, and this could in turn internalize …

The objective of this paper is to study equilibrium in a labour market, in which workers search on the job and firms … arise purely from firms' optimal response to labour market competition brought about by workers' on-the-job search. We …