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This paper investigates the relationship between the selling price of diamonds and their weight in carats. For this purpose, we use a unique sample of 112,080 certified diamonds collected from www.info-diamond.com during the first week of July 2011. We find substantial differences in pricing...
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) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour …, and their differentiation by age and gender. Second, it offers a conceptualization of time and irreversibility which helps …
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There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ …
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There is economic pressure towards the postponement of the retirement age, but employers are still reluctant to employ …
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-boom generation approaches retirement age, this has critical consequences for maintaining a high standard of living and the … maintaining a work force with diversity in age. Overall, the implication is that it is beneficial to define additional short …
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with the invariant method. These effects are not present in a simple search model in which individuals are influenced by …
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We simulate a closed rental housing market with search and matching frictions, in which both landlord and tenant agents … search accepting residences based on their idiosyncratic tastes for housing and a disagreement point derived from information … on the distribution of offers. The steady state to which the simulation evolves shows price dispersion, nonzero search …
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We set a framework where an individual has to choose one among a set of spatially distributed activities. The individual knows the price of each activity, as well as the distance to reach it. She has either full or zero information about each activity's quality. Qualities are modeled by i.i.d....
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This paper presents the results of an econometric analysis of the conditional probability of leaving unemployment for four waves of French married men and women entering unemployment from 1991 to 2002. The effect of spouse's hourly earnings on unemployment duration is found to be asymmetric for...
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This paper presents the results of an econometric analysis of the conditional probability of leaving unemployment for four waves of French married men and women entering unemployment from 1991 to 2002. The effect of spouse's hourly earnings on unemployment duration is found to be asymmetric for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004910