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The quality effect of intrafirm bargaining with endogenous worker flows
Maury, Tristan-Pierre; Tripier, Fabien - HAL - 2011
This paper proposes a new explanation of the job quality issue in search and matching models, which is not based on market externalities but on strategic interactions within firms through the intrafirm bargaining process. We develop a matching and intrafirm bargaining model in which large firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839536
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The Role of Social Networks and Peer Effects in Education Transmission
Bervoets, Sebastian; Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - HAL - 2012
We propose a dynastic model in which individuals are born in an educated or uneducated environment that they inherit from their parents. We study the role of social networks on the correlation in the parent-child educational status independent of any parent-child interaction. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933827
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Preferences for redistribution : an empirical analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2011
People's preferences for state intervention in social policies vary. A cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data is conducted here to highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand for redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors usually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010605322
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Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850
Cummins, Neil - HAL - 2009
The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738834
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738889
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Trends in social mobility in Romania since the Middle of the Twentieth Century. Economical change as an explicative factor of the social mobility.
Ionas, Liliana - HAL - 2008
One of the explanations of the social mobility's growth in industrial countries from Europe and North America since the mid-twenty century is the occupational change due to the modifications produced in the economic sectors. The pattern of upward social mobility can change because the parents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899241
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Preferences for redistribution: a European comparative analysis
Guillaud, Elvire - HAL - 2008
What explains people s preferences for state intervention in social policies? Conducting a cross-section analysis on individual-level survey data, we highlight the link between the economic position of agents and their specific demand toward redistribution. Controlling for a number of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784107
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Do bankers prefer married couples?
Leturcq, Marion - HAL - 2011
default, banks might be willing to lend to stable couples. In presence of incomplete information, marriage could be used as a … signal of the quality of the match. This paper investigates the link between marriage and credit constraints. I use matching … methods to evaluate the impact of marriage on credit constraints. I find that married couples are more likely to be approved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401090
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Competing marital contracts? The marriage after civil union in France
Leturcq, Marion - HAL - 2011
marriage in Western Europe and in Northern America: declining marriage rates, increase in cohabitation, increasing divorce … demand for different marital contracts. In France, since 1999, two types of marital contracts are available: the marriage and … of the age at first marriage by cohort. It detects some recent changes in the bottom of the distribution of the age at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401091
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The economic value of virtue
Mariani, Fabio - HAL - 2008
We model virtue as an asset on the marriage market : since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738540