matching or information revealed by others' behaviours, or to endogenous effects generated by bargaining within marriage. A … in individual effects. As such the correlation in the raw smoking data is consistent with positive assortative matching … in marriage over smoking, rather than bargaining within the couple or social learning. …

This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs … only perform unskilled jobs. Our first result shows that the equilibrium with ex-post bargaining is never efficient. Second …? bargaining strength affects unemployment and skill-mismatch. …

/methodological viewpoint, we extend a somewhat flexible search-matching economy to alternative bargaining solutions. In particular, we prove … search-matching economies. Second, our results show that even though the traditional results of bargaining theory apply in …-known bargaining solutions. We apply the Nash, the Egalitarian and the Kalai-Smorodinsky bargaining solutions in the small firm …

-valuation parent would be endowed with greater bargaining power. The implications of these results are then interpreted in the context …

We show that in a search/matching model with endogenous participation in which workers are heterogeneous with respect …

paper stresses the role of horizontal differences in worker productivity, as opposed to vertical, assortative matching …

Building upon a continuous-time model of search with Nash bargaining in a stationary environment, we analyze the effect … criteria. A key determinant of the welfare impact of a minimum wage increase is the Nash bargaining power parameter. We discuss … estimates of all primitive parameters, including bargaining power. Direct estimates of the welfare impact of the minimum wage …

We develop a two-sided matching model with positive sorting, divorce and remarriage. Match quality for each couple is … down by equilibrium (stability) requirements. Moreover, ex-post Nash bargaining and ex-ante commitment yield the same non …

We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a … enters bargaining directly. Our results lend support to the tendency towards decentralisation of pay bargaining in the public …