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-random sorting around the discontinuity point is unlikely to drive my results. …
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Econometrica publishes original articles in all branches of economics - theoretical and empirical, abstract and applied, providing wide-ranging coverage across the subject area. It promotes studies that aim at the unification of the theoretical-quantitative and the empirical-quantitative...
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In this paper we make use of a matched employer-employee database for Italy to look at the spatial distribution of wages. Using this rich database we aim to open up the black box of agglomeration economies exploiting the micro dimension of interaction among economic agents, both individuals and...
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meeting by one buyer reduces another buyer's meeting probability. Under price posting buyers reveal their type by sorting ex …
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Assortative Matching is positive or negative. Even though we cannot identify the sign of the sorting, we can identify the strength … worker is non-monotonic in the type of his employer. This is due to the fact that in a sorting model, wages re ect the … with the true type of the form. We then propose an alternative procedure that measures the strength of sorting in the …
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We provide evidence on the extent of ethnic segregation experienced by children across secondary schools and neighbourhoods (wards). Using 2001 Schools Census and Population Census data we employ the indices of dissimilarity and isolation and compare patterns of segregation across nine ethnic...
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We test the impact of historic amenities on house prices and sorting of households within cities. Conservation area …
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Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second is that each incumbent worker produced more. The second effect is termed “making do with less.” Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large...
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is little sorting on ability. A possible explanation is that young individuals have an imperfect assessment of their … ability, and, when they learn about it, early decisions have had a lasting impact and reduce their incentives to move. We … formalize this idea through an overlapping generations model of urban sorting by workers with heterogenous ability and self …
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obtained for this wide class of models is associated with mergers not happening in isolation but rather bunching together. I … extend the results to the analysis of cross-border mergers, studying two standard models that satisfy the sufficient …
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