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Efficiency and Stability in a Process of Teams Formation
Boncinelli, Leonardo; Pin, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We analyze a team formation process that generalizes matching models and network formation models, allowing for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112205
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Partition, migration, and jute cultivation in India
Fenske, James; Bharadwaj, Prashant - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
these ``environmental refugees'' can play a positive role in the regions that receive them by looking at the partition of … jute cultivation. Our estimates suggest that migrants fully explain post-Partition jute cultivation. Consistent with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008615052
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Size Matters: The Effect of the Scramble for Africa on Informal Institutions and Development
Dimico, Arcangelo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109271
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Revising the school choice problem
Duddy, Conal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In a school choice problem each school has a priority ordering over students. These priority orderings depend on criteria such as whether a student lives within walking distance or has a sibling already at the school. We argue that by including just the priority orderings in the problem, and not...
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Strategic Interaction in the Sex Market
Morrow, John; Sivan, Yoav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
recommend policy. We develop a model of social network formation through sexual matching, provide an empirical approach derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260030
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In search of a preferred preference elicitation method: A test of the internal consistency of choice and matching tasks
Attema, Arthur; Brouwer, Werner - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
elicitation task. This paper puts forward a new test of the internal consistency of choice and matching tasks, based on “internal … tasks than within matching tasks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422027
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A Matching Method with Panel Data
Nguyen Viet, Cuong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Difference-in-differences with matching is a popular method to measure the impact of an intervention in health as well … simple matching method is proposed to measure impact of an intervention using two-period panel data after the intervention. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493288
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A matching approach to study the impact of agoa on Sub-Saharan African countries
Cooke, Edgar F. A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The impact of the USA's agoa preferences on SSA countries is studied using a matching approach. The results indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369619
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Searching for Jobs: Evidence from MBA Graduates
Kuhnen, Camelia M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
of human capital available to hiring companies, which drives the efficiency of matching between workers and firms and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008633348
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New technology and labour Markets: Entrants, outsourcing and matching
Goyal, Ashima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The impact of new technology (ICT) on labour markets and welfare is analyzed in a model of matching. First, ICT lowers … cost and speed of market access, thus reducing frictions in matching a searching worker to an opportunity. It raises output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462325