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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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Sorting Between and Within Industries : A Testable Model of Assortative Matching

Abowd, John M. - 2014

We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...

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Lotteries in Student Assignment : An Equivalence Result

Pathak, Parag A. - 2010

simplifies and unifies all the known equivalence results in the house allocation literature. Along the way, two new mechanisms … -- Partitioned Random Priority and Partitioned Random Endowment -- are introduced for the house allocation problem. These mechanisms … generalize widely studied mechanisms for the house allocation problem and may be appropriate for the many-to-one setting such as …

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Complementarity and Aggregate Implications of Assortative Matching : A Nonparametric Analysis

Graham, Bryan S. - 2009

the status quo allocation, a random allocation, and both the perfect positive and negative assortative matching …

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Matching and Inequality in the World Economy

Costinot, Arnaud - 2009

factor allocation and factor prices in economies with a large number of goods and factors. The main results of our paper …

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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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Mismatch, Sorting and Wage Dynamics

Lise, Jeremy - 2013

We develop an empirical search-matching model which is suitable for analyzing the wage, employment and welfare impact of regulation in a labor market with heterogeneous workers and jobs. To achieve this we develop an equilibrium model of wage determination and employment which extends the...

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Mismatch Unemployment

Şahin, Ayşegül - 2012

We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher … unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the … database covering the universe of online U.S. job advertisements. Mismatch across industries and occupations explains at most 1 …

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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment

Bils, Mark - 2009

We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and unemployment. We show that heterogeneity, reflecting differences in match quality and worker assets, reduces the extent of fluctuations in separations and unemployment. We find...

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Mismatch

Shimer, Robert - 2005

This paper develops a dynamic model of mismatch. Workers and jobs are randomly assigned to labor markets. Each labor …

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