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is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the … (some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …
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Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a … distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …
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This Paper demonstrates that women search longer for their first or second husband in cities with higher male wage … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate … search longer for a husband. …
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teams and run for an hour. This allows us not only to study the individual relationship between age and performance but also … performance goes down with age, although the speed-age gradient is rather flat. Group performance goes down with age as well, but …
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Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay …
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willingness to take risks is negatively related to age and being female, and positively related to height and parental education …
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The purpose of this Paper is to investigate wage structures of professional workers in the Israeli labour market, using data from the most recent 1995 Census and correcting for selectivity at the stage of entrance into the occupation. The sample of professionals is decomposed into several...
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, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …
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who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative …
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, is found to depend on certain demand-side factors, age and a number of other demographic characteristics. …
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