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cross-sectional data, providing information at just one point in time. Drawing meaningful conclusions about mismatch, its …
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Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in consumption. Consumers' expectations are...
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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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This chapter surveys the economics literature on overeducation. The original motivation to study this topic reports that the strong increase in the number of college graduates in the early 1970s in the United States led to a decrease in the returns to college education. We argue that Duncan and...
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