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Preference Signaling in Matching Markets
Coles, Peter - 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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141266
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An incentive theory of matching
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003848271
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Preschool Lottery Admissions and Its Effects on Long-Run Earnings and Outcomes
Akee, Randall; Clark, Leah R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use an admissions lottery to estimate the effect of a non-means tested preschool program on students' long-run earnings, employment, family income, household formation, and geographic mobility. We observe long-run outcomes by linking both admitted and non-admitted individuals to confidential...
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Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale : The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment
Bleiberg, Joshua; Brunner, Eric J.; Harbatkin, Erica; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Federal incentives and requirements under the Obama administration spurred states to adopt major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. We examine the effects of these reforms on student achievement and attainment at a national scale by exploiting the staggered timing of implementation...
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The Effects of Comprehensive Educator Evaluation and Pay Reform on Achievement
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Luo, Jin; Morgan, Andrew J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
A fundamental question for education policy is whether outcomes-based accountability including comprehensive educator evaluations and a closer relationship between effectiveness and compensation improves the quality of instruction and raises achievement. We use synthetic control methods to study...
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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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