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Cooper, Russell W.; Liu, Huacong - 2016

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Preference signaling in matching markets

Coles, Peter A.; Kushnir, Alexey; Niederle, Muriel - 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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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework

Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009

We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...

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Minimally altruistic wages and unemployment in a matching model

Rotemberg, Julio - 2008

"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...