In this dissertation, I investigate how government policies influence an individual's decision to search for and accept … program. An on-the-job search model with crime is used to model criminal behavior, derive the estimation method and analyze … four and a half months to find a job. Combining these results, it is demonstrated that reducing the average unemployment …

, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search …, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and institutions in the labor market. There is particular emphasis on the …

Sponsored search mechanisms, where advertisers bid for placement to beas close to the top in the listing of search … results, are the fastestgrowing among online search models. Sponsored search in popular searchservices such as Google and … Yahoo! employ an auction mechanism whereinfirms can bid, for a better placement in the (sponsored) search results …

assortments. Consumers facea search problem within an assortment of horizontally differentiatedproducts supplied by a monopolist …. They may search for a product matchby drawing products from the assortment or by seeking word of mouthrecommendations from …

consumer search in electronic markets. In conventional markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer … electronic markets, consumer search costs are primarily a function of the consumer’s mental awareness of different retailers … — and this awareness is likely to be concentrated in the hands of a few retailers.Based on this model of consumer search, IT …

effort and oceanographic data. This dataset is used to test the hypothesis that intensive fishing effort increases the search …

I develop an equilibrium, a two-sided search model of marriage with endogenous population growth, to study the …

performance gain yet tremendously reduces the number of samples required compared to an exhaustive search. …