Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners … distinction between efficient (cities)and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is thatsingles …

average creative age of Nobel economists is slightly belowthat of laureates in physics, and considerably younger than that of …

subsequent narrowing with age of the gradient in health by SES. …

See also the article <I>Search Costs, Demand-side Economies, and the Incentives to merge under Bertrand Competition … merge in a Bertrand competitionmodel where firms sell differentiated products and consumers search the marketfor … than the outsiders so consumers search forgood deals first at the non-merging stores and then, if they do not find …

search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search …. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility … commodities that are search intensive, i.e. that require a wide variety of tasks and make use of scarce worker types. Empirical …

In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is … argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees … search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival rate of workplaces is much higher than the arrival rate of jobs …

In this paper we analyse the commuting distribution from a job search perspective.We have examined under which …-the-jobmobility, spatially-differentiated search or heterogeneity ofjobs. Residential mobility does notappear to explain the shape of the …

the United States we find strong evidencefor a systematic concave relationship. An assignment model with search frictions …