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Changes in Marital Sorting : Theory and Evidence from the US

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Dias, Mónica Costa; Meghir, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships …. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions …

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Kidney Exchange

Roth, Alvin E. - 2003

Most transplanted kidneys are from cadavers, but there are also substantial numbers of transplants from live donors. Recently, there have started to be kidney exchanges involving two donor-patient pairs such that each donor cannot give a kidney to the intended recipient because of immunological...

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Employer Credit Checks : Poverty Traps versus Matching Efficiency

Corbae, Dean - 2018

and reduces matching efficiency: average unemployment duration rises by 13% for the most productive workers after …

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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 …

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Money or Grit? Determinants of MisMatch

Cooper, Russell - 2016

This paper studies the determinants of mismatch in educational attainment. Mismatch arises when high ability individuals do not obtain a college degree and/or low ability individuals do. Using data from the NLSY97 survey, the paper estimates a structural model of education choice that matches...

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Unemployment Fluctuations, Match Quality, and the Wage Cyclicality of New Hires

Gertler, Mark - 2016

Macroeconomic models often incorporate some form of wage stickiness to help account for employment fluctuations. However, a recent literature calls in to question this approach, citing evidence of new hire wage cyclicality from panel data studies as evidence for contractual wage flexibility for...

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Identification and Efficiency Bounds for the Average Match Function under Conditionally Exogenous Matching

Graham, Bryan S. - 2016

. Consider the following matching mechanism: take a random draw from the `W=w_j` subgroup of the first population and match her … function (AMF), denote the expected output associated with this match. We show that (i) the AMF is identified when matching is … conditionally exogenous, (ii) conditionally exogenous matching is compatible with a pairwise stable aggregate matching equilibrium …

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MisMatch in Human Capital Accumulation

Cooper, Russell - 2016

understand the magnitudes and sources of mismatch in this assignment, both in theory and in the data. The paper presents evidence …

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An Empirical Model of the Medical Match

Agarwal, Nikhil - 2014

This paper develops a framework for estimating preferences in two-sided matching markets with non-transferable utility … market. I use pairwise stability together with a vertical preference restriction on one side of the market to identify … with many-to-one matching. These methods allow me to investigate two issues concerning the centralized market for medical …

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...

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