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, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender … Surveys and sets of microeconomic data from Australia and Germany. -- time use ; gender differences ; household production …
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We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …
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Using an administrative data set containing daily information on individual workers' employment histories, we investigate how workers' labour market transitions are affected by international outsourcing. In order to do so, we estimate hazard rate models for match separations, as well as for...
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model with search-and-matching frictions, collective bargaining and monopolistic competition in the product market. Workers …
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We study a matching model with heterogeneous agents, nontransferable utility and search frictions. Agents differ along … specifications can be treated as a case of horizontal heterogeneity only. -- Matching ; Horizontal Differentiation ; Marriage Markets …
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-specific unemployment ; human capital investment ; idiosyncratic shock ; skill substitution ; search and matching …
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students often fail to grasp the strategic issues involved. The modified SDA algorithm significantly improves the matching for … admissions ; experiment ; quotas ; matching ; Gale-Shapley mechanism ; Boston mechanism …
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In this paper we investigate the labor market dynamics in a matching model where fluctuations are driven by movements … that the canonical matching model under a very standard calibration is able to generate an important volatility of …
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This paper develops a multi-sectorial search and matching model with endogenous occupational choice in a context of …
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I compare the performance of solution methods in solving a standard real business cycle model with labor market search frictions. Under the conventional calibration, the model is solved by the projection method using the Chebyshev polynomials as its basis, and the perturbation methods up to...
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