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We use census-like data and a regression discontinuity design to study the labor market impacts of a signal provided by a government-sponsored award given to top-performing students on a nationwide college exit exam in Colombia. Students who can signal their high level of specific skills earn...
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investments. Besides signaling complementary types, investments also generate benefits for partners. We shed light on quantitative … how it interacts with other important factors such as the costs of investment and the signaling incentives induced by …
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investments. Besides signaling complementary types, investments also generate benefits for partners. We shed light on quantitative … how it interacts with other important factors such as the costs of investment and the signaling incentives induced by …
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Agents in a finite two-sided market are matched assortatively, based on costly investments. Besides signaling private … of investment and the signaling incentives induced by competition. …
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The matching of likes is a frequently observed phenomenon. However, for such assortative matching to arise in a search … can generate even perfect assortative matching under weak conditions: supermodularity of the match production function is … the model achieves nearly unconstrained efficiency despite frictions. -- Assortative matching ; sorting ; search ; signals …
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the efficient matching of workers to firms. This mechanism can be thought of as operated by a recruitment agency, an …
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unconstrained efficiency despite frictions: agents successfully conclude their search after a single meeting, a stable matching … results, and overall match output is maximised. -- Assortative matching ; sorting ; search ; signals …
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is a necessary and sufficient condition. It simultaneously ensures perfect positive assortative matching, so that single …
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Agents in a finite two-sided market are matched assortatively, based on costly investments. Besides signaling private … of investment and the signaling incentives induced by competition. …
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investments. Besides signaling complementary types, investments also generate benefits for partners. We shed light on quantitative … how it interacts with other important factors such as the costs of investment and the signaling incentives induced by …
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