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“Google it!”Forecasting the US Unemployment Rate with a Google Job Search index

Francesco D’Amuri; Marcucci, Juri - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

We suggest the use of an Internet job-search indicator (the Google Index, GI) as the best leading indicator to predict the US unemployment rate. We perform a deep out-of-sample forecasting comparison analyzing many models that adopt both our preferred leading indicator (GI), the more standard...

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Youth Unemployment Challenges in Mining Areas of Ghana

Sarfo-Mensah, P.; Adjaloo, M.K.; Donkor, P. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become major development challenge. In Ghana the...

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The Influence of Climate Change Considerations on Energy Policy: The Case of Russia

Markandya, Anil; Golub, Alexander; Strukova, E. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

To those working on climate change it is obvious that energy policy should be influenced by climate change considerations. The question that this paper seeks to answer is, to what extent do they influence policy and what contribution can a careful analysis of the costs and benefits of climate...

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What Happens to the Careers of European Workers when Immigrants "Take their Jobs"?

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2014

Following a representative longitudinal sample of native European residents, over the period 1995-2001, we identify the effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct...

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Constrained School Choice: An Experimental Study

Haeringer, Guillaume; Calsamiglia, Caterina; Klijn, Flip - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

The literature on school choice assumes that families can submit a preference list over all the schools they want to be assigned to. However, in many real-life instances families are only allowed to submit a list containing a limited number of schools. Subjects' incentives are drastically...

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Feasibility Constraints and Protective Behavior in Efficient Kidney Exchange

Nicoló, Antonio; Álvarez, Carmelo Rodríguez - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We propose a model of Kidney-Exchange that incorporates the main European institutional features. We assume that patients do not consider all compatible kidneys homogeneous and patients are endowed with reservation values over the minimal quality of the kidney they may receive. Under feasibility...

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Social Games: Matching and the Play of Finitely Repeated Games

Jackson, Matthew O.; Watts, Alison - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

game. Conversely, the set of repeated matching (or social) equilibria also includes some plays that are not part of any … definitions, as well as the relationship to renegotiation-proof equilibrium. It is possible for repeated matching equilibria to be …

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Harmful Signaling in Matching Markets

Kushnir, Alexey - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

market for new Ph.D. economists. We evaluate the effect of such mechanisms on two-sided matching markets by considering a …

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A Measure to Compare Matchings in Marriage Markets

Biermann, Florian M. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

In matching markets the number of blocking pairs is often used as a criterion to compare matchings. We argue that this … changes, nor will it capture the satisfaction of the players with the matching. As an alternative, we set up two principles … objection against the given matching according to a bargaining set characterization of the set of stable matchings. We prove …

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How (not) to Choose Peers in Studying Groups

Gall, Thomas; Amann, Roland - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

This paper analyzes social group formation when agents are subject to peer effects within groups increasing human capital and instantaneous utility. When agents are heterogeneous on two dimensions, ability and social skills, and monetary payments are not feasible the model predicts segregation...

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