are intended for. Implications on wage inequality are examined. …

A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate … their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the magnitude of these frictions. For this purpose, I present an …

We analyze the impact of information frictions on workers' wages, contributing to the literature that tested search … theory, which has so far focused on labor market frictions in general and not specifically on information asymmetries. Using …

generates a spread between interest rates on loans and on deposits, which naturally reflects the efficiency of financial … low inflation. Hence, if monetary policy is sufficiently tight then banks end up reducing aggregate efficiency, soaking up …

A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate … their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the magnitude of these frictions. For this purpose, I present an …

This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs … production technologies. Finally, in an extension we derive a tax scheme that restores efficiency and we show how workers …

Integrating Roy with Becker, this paper studies occupational choice and matching in the labor market. Our model … earnings inequality without significant changes in within firm inequality. The estimated model fits the earnings distribution … inequality is largely due to the increase in her educational attainment over the same years. A simulation of skilled biased …

We analyze the allocation of talent across teams in large matching markets with competition for rank. We show that … talent, i.e. it makes positive assortative matching more likely and negative assortative matching less likely. This is in …

operations as pooling, matching, regression, hierarchical and multilevel modeling, calculating summary measures, finding the …

We examine changes in inequality and instability of the combined earnings of married couples over the 1980-2009 period … (SIPP-SSA) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Relative to male earnings inequality, the inequality of couples' earnings … role in dampening the rise in inequality and year-to-year variation in resources at the family level, we find that marital …