This paper presents a group decision support system (CDSS) which integrates the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) into a Delphi framework. The AHP-Delphi GDSS is applicable to a wide range of complex, multi-criteria decisions which require judgements about qualitative characteristics from a group...

An equilibrium search model of the labor market is combined with a social network. The key features are that the workers' network transmits information about jobs and that wages and entry of firms are determined in equilibrium. When workers are homogeneous referrals mitigate search frictions....

This article contributes to the nascent literature on the effect of grade retention in school on later labour market success. A field experiment is conducted to rule out the endogeneity of both outcomes. More concretely, various treatments of grade retention are randomly assigned to fictitious...