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Cheap Talk Messages for Market Design : Theory and Evidence from a Labor Market with Directed Search
Horton, John J.; Johari, Ramesh; Kircher, Philipp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In a model with cheap talk, employers can send messages about their willingness to pay for higher ability workers, which job-seekers can use to direct their search and tailor their wage bid. Introducing such messages leads--under certain conditions--to an informative separating equilibrium which...
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Crime and Body Weight in the Nineteenth Century : Was there a Relationship between Brawn, Employment Opportunities and Crime?
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2009
This paper considers the extent to which crime in the 19th century was conditioned on body weight. With data on inmates incarcerated in the Tennessee and Illinois state penitentiaries between 1831 and 1892, we estimate the parameters of Wiebull proportional hazard specifications of the...
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Intergenerational Effects of Incarceration
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2018
An often overlooked population in discussions of prison reform is the children of inmates. How a child is affected depends both on what incarceration does to their parent and what they learn from their parent's experience. To overcome endogeneity concerns, we exploit the random assignment of...
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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in France
Blanchet, Didier - 2016
Both methods predict high average levels of additional work capacity. However, the picture becomes somewhat different when disaggregating the results by social groups or education. Our results emphasize the idea that policies aiming at activating any estimated additional work capacity should...
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Health Capacity to Work at Older Ages in Denmark
Bingley, Paul - 2016
Longevity is increasing and many people are spending a greater proportion of their lives reliant on pensions to support consumption. In response to this, several countries have mandated delays to age of first entitlement to pension benefits in order to reduce incentives to retire early. However,...
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D. - 2008
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
Mitchener, Kris J. - 2008
integration …
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The Valuation Channel of External Adjustment
Ghironi, Fabio - 2007
Ongoing international financial integration has greatly increased foreign asset holdings across countries, enhancing … claims to firm profits in a production economy. For a given level of international financial integration (measured by the … goods, and the persistence of shocks. Finally, moving from less to more international financial integration, risk sharing …
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Is the International Diversification Potential Diminishing? Foreign Equity Inside and Outside the US
Lewis, Karen K. - 2006
capital markets have become more integrated. In this paper, I ask what this integration and its resulting higher correlation …
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Bond Markets as Conduits for Capital Flows : How Does Asia Compare?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2006
of financial integration or interrelatedness, asking how Asia compares with Europe and Latin America and with the base … head and shoulders above other regions in terms of financial integration. More interesting is that Asia already seems to …
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