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Reference-Dependence and Labor-Market Fluctuations
Eliaz, Kfir - 2013
We incorporate reference-dependent worker behavior into a search-matching model of the labor market, in which firms …
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Matching with Couples : Stability and Incentives in Large Markets
Kojima, Fuhito - 2010
doctors and psychologists, because couples view pairs of jobs as complements. A stable matching may not exist when couples are … present. We find conditions under which a stable matching exists with high probability in large markets. We present a … mechanism that finds a stable matching with high probability, and which makes truth-telling by all participants an approximate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142940
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An Empirical Model of Wage Dispersion with Sorting
Bagger, Jesper - 2014
-employee data. We find evidence of positive assortative matching. In the estimated equilibrium match distribution, the correlation … between worker skill and firm productivity is 0.12. The assortative matching has a substantial impact on wage dispersion. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055506
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Searching for Better Prospects : Endogenizing Falling Job Tenure and Private Pension Coverage
Friedberg, Leora; Owyang, Michael; Sinclair, Tara M. - 2022
Recent declines in job tenure have coincided with a shift away from traditional defined benefit (DB) pensions, which reward long tenure. Recent evidence also points to an increase in job-to-job movements by workers, and we document gains in relative wages of job-to-job movers over a similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324584
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The Minimum Wage and Search Effort
Adams, Camilla - 2018
Labor market search-and-matching models posit supply-side responses to minimum wage increases that may lead to improved …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909865
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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment
Bils, Mark; Chang, Yongsung; Kim, Sun-Bin - 2021
We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311946
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Why are Average Hours Worked Lower in Richer Countries?
Bick, Alexander - 2019
Why are average hours worked per adult lower in rich countries than in poor countries? We consider two natural explanations: income effects in preferences, in which leisure becomes more valuable when income rises, and distortionary tax systems, which are more prevalent in richer countries. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857818
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Medicaid Expansion and the Unemployed
Buchmueller, Thomas - 2019
We examine how a key provision of the Affordable Care Act--the expansion of Medicaid eligibility--affected health insurance coverage, access to care, and labor market transitions of unemployed workers. Comparing trends in states that implemented the Medicaid expansion to those that did not, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857819
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On Her Own Account : How Strengthening Women's Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender Norms
Field, Erica - 2019
Can greater control over earned income incentivize women to work and influence gender norms? In collaboration with Indian government partners, we provided rural women with individual bank accounts and randomly varied whether their wages from a public workfare program were directly deposited into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862415
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The Labor Supply Consequences of Having a Boy in China
Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2019
Combining eight years of panel data with an event study approach, we show that rural Chinese women's labor supply falls for one year following the birth of a daughter before returning to their pre-birth levels. The negative impact of the birth of a son on women's labor supply is much larger in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864140