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This paper provides the first analysis of employer search using duration methods for theUK. We model both the duration … of employer search and whether employers succeed infilling vacancies. We present the appropriate econometric techniques …
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This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or "informal" sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
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This paper investigates the role that idiosyncratic uncertainty plays in shaping social preferences over the degree of labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves over time as a Geometric Brownian motion...
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How can a principal (an agent) ensure that an agent (a principal) will work (pay up), if payment (work) precedes work (payment)? When a banknote is torn in two, each part is by itself worthless. A principal can pre-commit to payment-on-delivery, by tearing a banknote and giving the agent the...
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Using a linked employer-employee dataset and taking the perspective of individuals rather than firms, this paper analyzes some effects of joining start-ups. We show that entrants in new firms differ from those joining incumbent firms, and we use a matching approach to compare a group of...
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In Buy-It-Now (BIN, hereafter) auctions, sellers can make a \"take-it-or-leave-it\" price offer (BIN price) prior to an auction. We analyse experimentally how eBay sellers set BIN prices and whether they benefit from offering them. Using the real eBay environment in the laboratory, we find that...
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less experienced traders. As in a fraction of the uniform-experience literature, lack of short-selling makes room for the … success of such bubble schemes. This previous literature did not allow for persistent effects of experience on beliefs and …, instead, relied on more direct assumptions of belief heterogeneity. Although we map experience into beliefs in a specific way …
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variables over the respondents' lifetime, respectively. I find that experience significantly predicts respondents' expectations …
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Weitzman's search model requires that, conditional on stopping, the agent only takes boxes which have already been … common in the search and information acquisition literature, boxes are inspected following the same order as inWeitzman …
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private information. Agents engage in costly search and meet randomly. The terms of trade are determined through bilateral ….e., as discounting and the fixed cost of search become small, all equilibria of the market game converge to perfectly …
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