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the concept of entrepreneurial city. A network connectivity model is adopted to assess connectivity patterns, using the …
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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 …
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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 …
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distinction between efficient (cities)and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is thatsingles …
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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 …
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Is moving to the countryside a credible commitment device for couples? Weinvestigate whether lowering the arrival rate of potential alternative partners bymoving to a less populated area lowers the dissolution risk for a sample of Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the...
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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 …
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This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Econometrica</I> (1998). Volume 66, issue 5, pages 1183-1221.<P> This paper analyzes the determinants of lay-offs, job-to-job movements and totalseparations with a unique data set that combines information on individual firmsand their workers. We are...</p></i>
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the United States we find strong evidencefor a systematic concave relationship. An assignment model with search frictions …
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decide whether to search for a new wild organism with a certain quality or to produce the drug in question with an extant …
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