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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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Decentralised job matching
Haeringer, Guillaume; Wooders, Myrna Holtz - 2003
unique outcome, the worker-optimal matching. …
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Credible group stability in multi-partner matching problems
Konishi, Hideo; Ünver, M. Utku - 2003
It is known that in two-sided many-to-many matching markets, pair-wise stability is not logically related with the … (weak) core, unlike in many-to-one matching markets (Blair, 1988). In this paper, we seek a theoretical foundation for …-partner matching problem that includes two-sided matching problems as special cases. Under the same preference restriction, we also …
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Matching markets with signals
Kushnir, Alexey - 2009
information between firms and workers and show that costless signaling is actually harmful in some matching markets. Specifically …A costless signaling mechanism has been proposed as a device to improve welfare in decentralized two-sided matching … facilitates match formation. -- Matching Markets ; Signaling …
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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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