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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets
Coles, Peter A. - 2010
on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a signal of interest to … ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act … one employer, facilitates matches in such markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of …
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
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Gift-Exchange, Incentives, and Heterogeneous Workers
Non, Arjan - 2011
By incorporating reciprocity in an otherwise standard principal-agent model, I investigate the relation between monetary gift-exchange and incentive pay, while allowing for worker heterogeneity. I assume that some, but not all, workers care more for their principal when they are convinced that...
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A Signaling Model of University Selection
Anic, Ivan; Bozin, Vladimir; Urosevic, Branko - 2021
We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under …
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Productivity in cities : self-selection and sorting
Venables, Anthony - 2010
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Mismatch
Shimer, Robert - In: The American economic review 97 (2007) 4, pp. 1074-1101
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Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2010
This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions...
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Mismatch
Shimer, Robert - 2010
This paper develops a dynamic model of mismatch. Workers and jobs are randomly assigned to labor markets. Each labor market clears at each instant but some labor markets have more workers than jobs, hence unemployment, and some have more jobs than workers, hence vacancies. As workers and jobs...
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Job market signaling and employer learning
Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Prat, Julien - In: Journal of economic theory 147 (2012) 5, pp. 1787-1817
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Wages and informality in developing countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Robin, Jean-Marc - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 4, pp. 1509-1546
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