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Matching with Contracts: An Efficient Marriage Market?
Zeng, Chloe Qianzi - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
matching market offerscontracts. I show that when expected marital surplus is strictly monotonic in agents’types, no … separating equilibrium that achieves matching efficiency exists. I then studya social planner’s problem, finding necessary and … sufficient conditions for a truthful directrevelation mechanism to achieve matching efficiency. These conditions become …
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How Do People Decide to Allocate Transfers Among Family Members?
Cox, Donald - Department of Economics, Boston College - 2001
Despite recent advances in data collection and the growing number of empirical studies that examine private intergenerational transfers, there still exist significant gaps in our knowledge. Who transfers what to whom, and why do they it? I argue that some of these gaps could be filled by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968853
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Die Arbeitslosenversicherung in Deutschland – Beitrag zur Bekämpfung oder Ursache von Arbeitslosigkeit
Breiding, Torsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
benefit payments compared to the wage earned in available jobs - labour supply and matching - a theoretical approach to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008622251
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Multi-Trait Matching and Intergenerational Mobility: A Cinderella Story
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320404
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Stable Partnerships, Matching, and Local Public Goods
Clark, Simon; Kanbur, Ravi - School of Economics, University of Edinburgh - 2004
In the presence of local public goods differences in tastes are an important determinant of the way in which partnerships are formed. Heterogeneity in tastes for private vs. public goods produces a tendency to positive assortment and partnerships of couples with similar tastes; heterogeneity in...
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Social insurance and the marriage market
Persson, Petra - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015
(capacities), its elimination also raises the long-run assortativeness of matching. These findings demonstrate that when social …
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Identifying non-cooperative behavior among spouses: Child outcomes in migrant-sending households
Chen, Joyce J. - In: Journal of Development Economics 100 (2013) 1, pp. 1-18
household labor for both children and mothers and, if migration occurs in response to a negative shock, we should observe an … by an increase in mothers' bargaining power, as children's human capital is not affected by migration, controlling for …
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Spousal Conflict and Divorce
Zhylyevskyy, Oleksandr - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012
The optimal balance between keeping marriages intact, despite spousal conflict, and allowing for divorce is a subject of policy debate in the United States. To explore the tradeoffs, I construct a structural model with information asymmetries, which may generate inefficient outcomes. Parameters...
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Marriage and Divorce in a Model of Matching
Mumcu, Ayse; Saglam, Ismail - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We study the problem of marriage formation and marital distribution in a two-period model of matching, extending the … matching with bargaining framework of Crawford and Rochford (1986). We run simulations to find the effects of alimony rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836944
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Multi-trait matching and gender differentials in intergenerational mobility
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - In: Economics Letters 120 (2013) 2, pp. 292-296
We describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678839