We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender preferences … from firms’ propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …

The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical …

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …

consistent with search theory. We apply the technique to eleven countries over various years, and find that incomplete … decreases incomplete information and results in 5% higher wages. A more dense population reduces search costs leading to less …