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Canonical correlation and assortative matching: A remark
Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - 2012
In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289996
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Workplace heterogeneity and the rise of West German wage inequality
Card, David E.; Heining, Jörg; Kline, Patrick - 2013
We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293157
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Identifying sorting: in theory
Eeckhout, Jan; Kircher, Philipp - 2009
We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker … and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269035
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Stable Matching on the Job? Theory and Evidence on Internal Talent Markets
Cowgill, Bo; Davis, Jonathan; Montagnes, B. Pablo; … - 2024
their match. We study two prevalent approaches for matching within organizations: Centralized assignment by firm leaders and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567476
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Commitments and the Marital Match: The Effect of Alimony Reform on Assortative Matching
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer Louise - 2021
This paper examines the effects of reforms that reduced alimony on matching in the marriage market. Recent literature … assortative matching, as women forgo specialization which may not be compensated upon divorce. Using state-level data on alimony …-based measures of assortative matching increase similarly. Moreover, we find the largest effects among those groups who might be more …
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Assortative matching and gender
Merlino, Luca Paolo; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Pozzoli, Dario - 2012
assessment of the assortative matching patterns arising in the period 1996-2005 controlling for firms and individual … characteristics. We find strong differences between men and women in assortativity. While positive assortative matching in job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289944
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Canonical Correlation and Assortative Matching: A Remark
Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the context of the Beckerian theory of marriage, when men and women match on a single-dimensional index that is the weighted sum of their respective multivariate attributes, many papers in the literature have used linear canonical correlation, and related techniques, in order to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128040
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Social Reciprocity
Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2004
We define social reciprocity as the act of demonstrating one's disapproval, at some personal cost, for the violation of widely-held norms (e.g., don't free ride). Social reciprocity differs from standard notions of reciprocity because social reciprocators intervene whenever a norm is violated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271935
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Driving forces behind informal sanctions
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - 2005
This paper investigates the driving forces behind informal sanctions in cooperation games and the extent to which theories of fairness and reciprocity capture these forces. We find that cooperators' punishment is almost exclusively targeted towards the defectors but the latter also impose a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267590
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A Strictly Economic Explanation of Gender Norms: The Lasting Legacy of the Plough
Cigno, Alessandro - 2020
We show that the descendants of ancient farmers may have an interest in marrying among themselves, and thus maintaining the gendered division of labour originally justified on comparative- advantage grounds by the advent of the plough even after they emigrate to a modern industrial economy where...
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