Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In citiessingles can meet more potential partners … distinction between efficient (cities)and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is thatsingles …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a … distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a … distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …

Danishcouples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay inthe city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who marriedoutside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …

interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by …We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called "beauty premium". Our explanation is based entirely on search … frictions and the fact that physical appearance plays an important role in attracting a marriage partner. We analyse the …

In this paper, we employ search theory as a micro-economic foundation for the wasteful commuting hypothesis. It is … argued that the commute of the self-employed is the result of a search process for vacant workplaces, whereas employees … search for vacant jobs through space. Because the arrival rate of workplaces is much higher than the arrival rate of jobs …