elasticity of labor supply. Thus, our results uncover the previously undocumented power of words in the job matching process …

workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …

approach is based on a game-theoretic two-sided matching model and the estimation strategy employs the method of simulated …

the empirical literature estimating the matching function, commonly used to map unemployment and vacancies into hires …. First, we show how to non-parametrically identify the matching function. Second, we estimate the matching function allowing … for unobserved matching efficacy, without imposing the usual independence assumption between matching efficiency and …

-provided unless buyers are rewarded for it. Signaling theory implies that only high quality sellers would reward buyers for truthful … feedback. We explore this scope for signaling using Taobao's "reward-for-feedback" mechanism and find that items with rewards …

information about changes in the composition of output, trade, within-industry factor use and factor supplies. We conclude that …

describes the malpractices of private employment agencies as a situation of asymmetric information between job seekers and the …. I show that public employment offices helped lower the degree of asymmetric information. The majority of job seekers who … migrants who were most lacking in information and networks in their new environment …