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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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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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Wages and informality in developing countries
Meghir, Costas; Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Robin, Jean-Marc - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 4, pp. 1509-1546
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Wages and Informality in Developing Countries
Meghir, Costas - 2012
It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply : theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
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Unemployment fluctuations, match quality, and the wage cyclicality of new hires
Gertler, Mark; Huckfeldt, Christopher; Trigari, Antonella - 2016
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