This paper provides a microeconomic model of matching which implies that the standard, reduced form approach, is … misspecified. A simple model is analysed (with help-wanted/employment-needed advertising) where the matching rate depends not only …

choice of managerial compensation schemes and the manager-firm matching are all endogenous. The model yields predictions on …

employment prospects. We rely on exact matching to compare workers displaced due to firm closure with similar non …

decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … generates greater investment efficiency, romantic matching generates greater allocative efficiency, since more high ability … educational investments and labour force participation based on matching regimes. …

This paper develops a matching model of the labour market under wage rigidity when hiring decisions are irreversible …

informative data originating from administrative records. Using a matching estimator for multiple programmes, we find positive …

and the data we have, propensity score matching methods are the most robust approach to estimating ethnic parity. We … by matching. In many cases, it turns out not to be possible to calculate satisfactory quantitative estimates even with … matching techniques: the characteristics of Whites and Ethnic Minorities are simply too different before the Jobcentre Plus …