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Does bargaining matter in the small firm matching model?
L'Haridon, Olivier; Malherbet, Franck; Pérez-Duarte, … - 2010
In this article, we use a stylized model of the labor market to investigate the effects of three alternative and well-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm's matching model of unemployment. To the best of...
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An Economic Model of Child Custody
Francesconi, Marco; Muthoo, Abhinay - 2003
This paper develops a model of child custody based on an incomplete-contract approach to the allocation of property rights. Because of the presence of transaction costs in marriage, altruistic parents cannot contract upon the investments they make into their children, but can reduce the...
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Ethnic identification, intermarriage, and unmeasured progress by Mexican Americans
Duncan, Brian; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2005
Using Census and CPS data, we show that U.S.-born Mexican Americans who marry non-Mexicans are substantially more educated and English proficient, on average, than are Mexican Americans who marry co-ethnics (whether they be Mexican Americans or Mexican immigrants). In addition, the non-Mexican...
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Cultural diversity and local labour markets
Suedekum, Jens; Wolf, Katja; Blien, Uwe - 2009
During the last decade there have been marked changes in the composition of the non-native workforce in the German labour market. In particular there has been a notable increase in the diversity of nationalities of which the foreign workforce is composed. In this paper we investigate the effects...
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Immigrant self-employment: does intermarriage matter?
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2009
This paper investigates the effect of a native spouse on the transitions into and out of entrepreneurship of male immigrants in the U.S. We find that those married to a native are less likely to start up a business compared to those married to an immigrant. This finding is robust when the...
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Neighborhood diversity and the appreciation of native- and immigrant-owned homes
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009
This paper examines the effect of neighborhood diversity on the nativity gap in home-value appreciation in Australia. Specifically, immigrant homeowners experienced a 41.7 percent increase in median home values between 2001 and 2006, while the median value of housing owned by the native-born...
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Ethnic diversity and team performance: A field experiment
Hoogendoorn, Sander M.; van Praag, Mirjam - 2012
One of the most salient and relevant dimensions of team heterogeneity is ethnicity. We measure the causal impact of ethnic diversity on the performance of business teams using a randomized field experiment. We follow 550 students who set up 45 real companies as part of their curriculum in an...
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(Mis-)Predicted Subjective Well-Being Following Life Events
Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois - 2015
prediction errors that are at least partly driven by unforeseen adaptation. …
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Immigrants and Demography: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility
Adsera, Alicia; Ferrer, Ana - 2014
may explain the fertility behavior of first generation immigrants; namely, selection, disruption and adaptation. The …
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Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Stutzer, Alois - 2014
freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to … human well-being and the phenomenon of adaptation. Many challenges, of course, remain. First, we are only at the beginning … of understanding variation in the process of adaptation. The modeling of happiness over the life course promises a …
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