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This paper asks whether universal pre-kindergarten (UPK) raises parents' earnings and how much these earnings effects matter for evaluating the economic returns to UPK programs. Using a randomized lottery design, we estimate the effects of enrolling in a full-day UPK program in New Haven,...
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Italy that combines Social Security earnings records for employees with detailed financial information for employers to …
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. Matching theory predicts that students' behavior in Chile should be strategic because they can list only up to eight options …
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It is often argued that informal labor markets in developing countries promote growth by reducing the impact of regulation. On the other hand informality may reduce the amount of social protection offered to workers. We extend the wage-posting framework of Burdett and Mortensen (1998) to allow...
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students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for … admissions ; experiment ; quotas ; matching ; Gale-Shapley mechanism ; Boston mechanism …
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of the labor market such as the matching technology that pairs vacancies with unemployed workers. We estimate on US data …
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A labor matching model with nominal rigidities can match short-run movements in labor's share with some success …
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Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …
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, potentially complementary, input fixed. We introduce a class of such reallocations -- correlated matching rules -- that includes … the status quo allocation, a random allocation, and both the perfect positive and negative assortative matching …
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according to which the internet can improve information in the labour market and in doing so reduce mismatch-unemployment. …
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