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fims cannot offer long-term contracts, we find that individuals who are naive about their present bias will actually be … ineffciencies caused by their present bias. …
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firms cannot offer long-term contracts, we find that individuals who are naive about their present bias will actually be … inefficiencies caused by their present bias. …
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We analyze marital matching on income using an extremely rich Dutch data set containing all income tax files over four … years. We develop a novel methodology that directly extends previous contributions to allow for highly flexible matching … assortative matching. We also show that standard approaches, which consider all married couples using current incomes, may …
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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 data for 16 countries from the European Social Survey...
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while in others women confront a bias in referrals. Finally, the literature has moved from use of observational data into …
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Matching ; Labor Market Frictions ; Structural Estimation ; Efficiency ; Policy Analysis …
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In this study we develop and calibrate a search and matching model of the German labour market and analyze the impact …
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We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called "beauty premium". Our explanation is based entirely on search frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets...
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