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This paper studies the effects of the high-speed internet expansion on the match quality of new hires. We combine data on internet availability at the local level with German individual register and vacancy data. Results show that internet availability has no major impact on the stability of new...
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We extend the Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of equilibrium unemployment to incorporate public-sector employment. We calibrate our model to Colombian data and analyze the effects of public-sector wage and employment policy on the unemployment rate, on the division of employment between the...
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economic activity and matching …
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mechanisms that allow for ex post Bertrand competition generate the maximum matching on a realized network …
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Building a model with three imperfect markets – goods, labor and credit – representing a product's life-cycle, we find that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The calibrated model leads to a significant reduction in...
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paper stresses the role of horizontal differences in worker productivity, as opposed to vertical, assortative matching …
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workers distributed between them. We introduce commuting costs and search-matching frictions to deal with the spatial mismatch …
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This paper analyzes an urn-ball matching model in which workers decide how intensively they sample job openings and …
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We analyze the consequences of counseling provided to job seekers in a standard job search and matching model. It turns …
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An important paper by Chiappori et al. (2012) has proposed an elegant and parsimonious model of spousal matching over …
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