Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a … distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …

There is evidence that age matters in politics. In this paper we study whether implementation of affirmative action … policies on gender can generate additional effects on an alternative dimension of representation, namely, the age of … municipalities and use a Difference in differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the age of elected …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay …

interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by …We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called “beauty premium”. Our explanation is based entirely on search … frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the …

, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts …. Workers accumulate general human capital through learning-by-doing. With on-the-job search, a worker’s wage evolves …

We develop a three-stage model of abatement technology search, adoption, and deployment. Using this model, which draws … on search theory tools more frequently used in labour and monetary economics, we compare market-based and command …-and-control pollution control instruments with respect to the incentives each provides for abatement technology search and adoption …

equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … estimated parameter values welfare is improved if unemployed workers increase their search intensity. …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … in two thirds of countries, contrary to what models without search frictions predict. Average total gains from …

equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In this model three different types of unemployment arise: search, rest and …