Recruiting agents, or "programs" costly screen “applicants” in matching processes, and congestion in a market increases … programs; however, they may harm match quality. In a multiple-elicitation experiment conducted in a real-life matching market …

alternative models of educational mismatch. As the New Zealand labor market exhibits assignment-type matching, we argue that the …

by migration or information frictions. I analyze three sector-specific shocks with differential local effects, including … student-level data, I find this is not explained by information frictions, but more likely by migration frictions. The results …

We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal … sorting in the presence of search frictions independent of the sign of the sorting. -- Sorting ; assortative matching …

In this paper we develop a simple model of the signaling value of the GED credential. The model illustrates necessary … of the signaling value of the GED for marginal passers. We apply the model to the national 1997 passing standard increase … demographic and GED test score information from the Texas Education Agency linked to pre- and post-test taking Unemployment …