This paper provides an assessment of the implementation of a canonical two-sided matching model using marriage data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-1998, NLSY). Results indicate that agents tend to be patient in the marriage market, and their attractiveness is more sensitive...

This paper examines whether the Mortensen-Pisssarides matching model with productivity changes can explain the time pattern of wage inequality. The main finding is that the model produces counter-factual results. The main source of failure seems to be the exogenous matching function and/or the...

We consider the problem of statistical analysis on assortative matching. The random vector of interests consists of the age and the history of the first passage time of each of the newly-formed pairs. Complete data are not often available, however. Observations in each variate of the random...