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Firm entry and labor market dynamics
Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - 2008
process and labor markets are characterized by search and matching frictions. Entrants post vacancies and are matched to idle …
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Data breaches and identity theft
Roberds, William; Schreft, Stacey L. - 2008
This paper presents a monetary-theoretic model to study the implications of networks' collection of personal identifying data and data security on each other's incidence and costs of identity theft. To facilitate trade, agents join clubs (networks) that compile and secure data. Too much data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292313
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Credit and the no-surcharge rule
Monnet, Cyril; Roberds, William - 2006
A controversial aspect of payment cards has been the 'no-surcharge rule.' This rule, which is part of the contract between the card provider and a merchant, states that the merchant cannot charge a customer who pays by card more than a customer who pays by cash. In this paper we consider the...
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The impact of internet diffusion on marriage rates: Evidence from the broadband market
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293205
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Bargaining, search, and outside options
Gantner, Anita - 2007
outside option, which is modeled as a sequential search process during which he can also choose to return to bargaining at any … time. Two cases considered: In Regime I, both agents have symmetric information about the search parameters. We find that …, delay is possible. The solution characterizes the parameters for renegotiation and those for search with no return to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293421
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Long-term unemployment and subsidizing vacancies in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
How can long-term unemployment be reduced by policy measures of the government? In this paper a growth-matching-model is developed, in which the unemployment pool consists of heterogeneous unemployed workers, short-term and long-term unemployed, and with an endogenous skill-depreciation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295581
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Qualification-mismatch and long-term unemployment in a growth-matching model
Birk, Angela - 2001
How does technical progress affect long-term unemployment? The relationship between long-term unemployment and the rate of growth attributable to technical progress is evaluated in a growth-matching-model with heterogeneous jobless workers and with endogenously determined long-term unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295584
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Training, Mobility, and Wages: Specific Versus General Human Capital
Garloff, Alfred; Kuckulenz, Anja - 2005
This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two ways. First, we examine the correlation between training...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297508
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Globalisation as a 'good times' phenomenon: a search-based explanation
Edwards, T. Huw - 2009
driven by policy: rather, in a model of costly search, firms who are engaged in a searching process are very sensitive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299558
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Globalisation as a 'good times' phenomenon: A search-based explanation
Edwards, T. Huw - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-24, pp. 1-48
driven by policy: rather, in a model of costly search, firms who are engaged in a searching process are very sensitive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301325