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Social Networks and the Labour Market
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita - 2022
prevalence of social networks in job search there is as yet no consensus on the mechanisms for why referrals are so important: an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296518
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Information, intermediaries, and international migration
Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa; Schaner, Simone; … - 2022
are consistent with an increase in the option value of search: with better ability to differentiate offer quality, workers … search longer, select higher-quality intermediaries, and ultimately have better migration experiences. …
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The Relationship Between Risk Attitudes and Heuristics in Search Tasks: A Laboratory Experiment
Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - 2007
Experimental studies of search behavior suggest that individuals stop searching earlier than predicted by the optimal … standard search task as well as a lottery task designed to elicit utility functions. We find that search heuristics are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427494
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Beauty Premium and Marriage Premium in Search Equilibrium: Theory and Empirical Test
Bonilla, Roberto; Kiraly, Francis; Wildman, John - 2015
We propose a theoretical explanation for the so-called "beauty premium". Our explanation is based entirely on search … interaction between frictional labour and marriage markets and establish the existence of a search equilibrium characterised by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500407
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Saving and learning: Theory and evidence from saving for child's college
Zhu, Junyi - 2012
This paper analyzes the main uncertainty of college saving - the child's ability - in the context of the saving with learning model. The first section develops a dynamic model combining asset accumulation and learning to explain the parents' forward-looking saving behavior when they are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310491
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Bargaining and reputation in search markets
Atakan, Alp E.; Ekmekci, Mehmet - 2010
In a two-sided search market agents are paired to bargain over a unit surplus. The matching market serves as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282941
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Trade dynamics in the market for federal funds
Afonso, Gara; Lagos, Ricardo - 2012
have to search for a suitable counterparty, and once they have met, both parties negotiate the size of the loan and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287056
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Seasonal cycles in the housing market
Selcuk, Cemil - 2012
in summers and fall in winters. This paper presents a search model that analytically generates the observed deterministic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288825
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Information, commitment, and separation in illiquid housing markets
Stacey, Derek G. - 2012
I propose a model of the housing market using a search framework with asymmetric information in which sellers are … posting as a signalling device to direct buyers' search. Adverse selection and inefficient entry on the demand side then …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290389
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Capital Supply Uncertainty, Cash Holdings, andInvestment
Hugonnier, Julien; Malamud, Semyon; Morellec, Erwan - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2010
funds in the capital markets and have to search for investorswhen raising outside capital. We provide an explicit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009522190