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Is ownership change an opportunity for new owners to make systematic changes in the workforce of the acquired plant? We document changes to the workforce along observable and unobservable dimensions of worker quality around ownership change using matched employer-employee data. We observe above...
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Matching-type estimators using the propensity score are the major workhorse in active labour market policy evaluation … of average treatment effects on the treated using a radius matching framework. Considering two popular methods, the …
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Previous studies of charitable giving have focused on middle or higher income earners in Western countries, neglecting the poor. Despite this focus, the lowest income groups are often shown to contribute substantial shares of their income to charitable causes. In a large-scale natural field...
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We consider a multi-class multi-server queueing system and study the problem of designing an optimal matching topology …. Specifically, we are interested in finding matching topologies that optimize --in a Pareto efficiency-- sense the trade-off between … two competing objectives: (i) minimizing customers' waiting time delays and (ii) maximizing matching rewards generated by …
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Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases …
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search and matching model. Simulations of counterfactual policies show that the effectiveness of the hiring credit relied to …
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wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
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What is the driving force behind the cyclical behavior of unemployment and vacancies? What is the relation between job-creation incentives of firms and stock market valuations? We answer these questions in a model with time-varying risk, modeled as a small and variable probability of an economic...
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College admission problem is a matching problem with colleges offering seats (admission offer) to students. Each … college has its own preference list of students and each student has also its list of preferred colleges. Many stable matching … can be achieved. One of these matching is college-optimal, and one is student-optimal. Existing application of centralized …
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