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search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search …. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is more efficient in larger regions. Then, interregional mobility … commodities that are search intensive, i.e. that require a wide variety of tasks and make use of scarce worker types. Empirical …
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labor markets. Facing search frictions within markets and reallocation frictions between markets, workers endogenously …
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that mainly focused on estimating the effects of benefit duration on job search and acceptance strategies of the unemployed …
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Recently, a number of authors have argued that the standard search model cannot generate the observed business …
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This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the model has become an important tool …
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In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses … regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. The hypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with … men and women the duration of search is equal once we limit our estimation to women with a constant number of children in …
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We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy … free parameters: the search friction and the utility share of bearing children. We choose their values to match the median …
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Why do some people become entrepreneurs (and others don't)? Why are firms so heterogeneous, and many firms so small? To start, the paper briefly documents evidence from the empirical literature that the relationship between entrepreneurship and education is U-shaped, that many entrepreneurs...
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