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 …