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there is nowadays much simpler than in the past. Search-matching externalities are amplified by this possibility and by the … expected, increasing matching effectiveness in the other region yields growing regional unemployment rates. We characterize the …
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bank credit and the macro-players' propensities to accumulate money in a bank account. …
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Models with high dimensional sets of fixed effects are frequently used to examine, among others, linked employer-employee data, student outcomes and migration. Estimating these models is computationally difficult, so simplifying assumptions that are likely to cause bias are often invoked to make...
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This paper tracks the consequences of individuals' desire to align their location with their social preferences. The social preference studied in the paper is distaste for relative deprivation, measured in a cardinal manner. Location is conceived as social space, with individuals choosing to...
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decisions of partnered couples. We consider two separate matching paradigms for agents with heterogeneous abilities - one where … partners marry for money and the other where partners marry for romantic reasons orthogonal to productivity or debt. These … generate different investment incentives and therefore have a real impact on the market economy. While marrying for money …
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Job quality may usefully be thought of as depending on both job values (how much workers care about different job outcomes) and the job outcomes themselves. Here both cross-section and panel data are used to examine changes in job quality in OECD countries over the 1990s. Despite rising wages...
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Fungibility of money is a central principle in economics. It implies that any unit of money is substitutable for …, incentivized setup many subjects do not treat money as fungible. When a label is attached to a part of their budget, subjects …
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central bank money. The key differences between cash and central bank digital currency (CBDC) include transaction efficiency …
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We model an environment in which individuals prefer to be in a space in which their rank is higher, be it a social space, a geographical space, a work environment, or any other comparison sphere which we refer to in this paper, and without loss of generality, as a region. When the individuals...
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