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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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We analyze the effects of taxation in two-sided matching markets where agents have heterogeneous preferences over … potential partners. Our model provides a continuous link between models of matching with and without transfers. Taxes generate …
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's matching model of unemployment. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt that has been made to implement and … systematically compare these solutions in search-matching economies. Our results are twofold. First from the theoretical …/methodological viewpoint, we extend a somewhat flexible search-matching economy to alternative bargaining solutions. In particular, we prove …
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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 …
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method of search. The hiring subsidy raises job destruction and extends contrary to Mortensen-Pissarides (1999, 2003) the … duration of a job search, so that equilibrium unemployment increases. Like the subsidy, organizational reforms, which advance …
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This paper studies a labor market search-matching model with multi-worker firms to investigate how firms utilize the …
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In a market in which sellers compete for heterogeneous buyers by posting mechanisms, we analyze how the properties of the meeting technology affect the allocation of buyers to sellers. We show that a separate submarket for each type of buyer is the efficient outcome if and only if meetings are...
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In a market in which sellers compete by posting mechanisms, we study how the properties of the meeting technology affect the mechanism that sellers select. In general, sellers have incentive to use mechanisms that are socially efficient. In our environment, sellers achieve this by posting an...
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Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
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