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Economic downturn and volunteering : do economic crises affect content generation on Wikipedia?
Kummer, Michael E.; Slivko, Olga; Zhang, Michael - 2015
In this paper, we address the impact of surging unemployment on online public good provision. Specifically, we ask how drastically increased unemployment affects voluntary contributions of content to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. We put together a monthly country-level data set, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381947
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On the Number of Employed in the Matching Model
Kitahara, Minoru - 2019
largest one among the matchings in which no agent can be better off by itself. We show that, in the one-to-one matching model …, the number of matches in any stable matching is more than or equal to the smallest integer that is not less than half of … the benchmark number. This result is satisfied even if "stable matching" is replaced by "efficient matching". We extend …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899286
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Courtship as an Investing Game : Labor-Market and Marriage-Market Outcomes by Age by Marriage
Zhang, Hanzhe - 2018
This paper documents relationships between age at marriage and labor-market out- come reflected by personal income as well as relationships between age at marriage and marriage-market outcome reflected by spousal income for Americans born from 1900s to 1970s, and motivated by these documented...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938075
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Offshoring, Matching, and Income Inequality
Choi, Jaerim - 2022
This paper develops a matching framework of offshoring in which offshoring is defined as cross-country matching between … the matching framework in a two-country, two-task model in which workers and managers possess a continuum of skills …. Offshoring alters the matching mechanism, changes the span of control, and thereby influences inequality through differential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291298
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Does a Tougher Environmental Policy Raise Unemployment? Optimal Taxation, Public Goods and Environmental Policy With Rationing of Labour Supply
Bovenberg, A Lans; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993
The implications of more environmental concern for the optimal provision of public goods, taxation, environmental policy and involuntary unemployment are derived within a second-best framework in which lump-sum taxes and subsidies are not available and labour supply is rationed due to a rigid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656209
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Optimal taxation, public goods and environmental policy with involuntary unemployment
Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; van der Ploeg, F. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091900
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Firms and flexibility
Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegül - 2007
We study the effects of labor market rigidities and frictions on firm-size distributions and dynamics. We introduce a model of endogenous entrepreneurship, labor market frictions, and firm-size dynamics with many types of rigidities, such as hiring and firing costs, search frictions with vacancy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283302
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Inefficient Unemployment and Bargaining Friction
Yuen, C. Y. Kelvin - 2019
This paper explores the possibility of privately inefficient job separations due to bargaining friction and its implications for the unemployment dynamics. I propose a simple specification of bargaining friction by including bargaining wedges in the standard Nash bargaining model. Such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893924
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The Employed, the Unemployed, and the Unemployable : Directed Search with Worker Heterogeneity
Basov, Suren - 2010
We examine the implications of worker heterogeneity on the equilibrium matching process, using a directed search model … expression for the equilibrum matching function. This function has constant returns to scale and two new terms, which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146730
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Technological unemployment revisited : automation in a searchand matching framework
Cords, Dario; Prettner, Klaus - 2018
Will low-skilled workers be replaced by automation? To answer this question, we set up a search and matching model that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907098