This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …, but incomplete specialization in marriage. It also captures well-known matching patterns in each of these sectors …

; education ; labor ; marriage ; social welfare ; linear programming …This paper presents a tractable framework for studying frictionless matching in school, work, and marriage when … communicate and coordinate at lower resource cost. The theory delivers full task specialization in the labor and education markets …

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …, individuals match assortatively on education and draw a match-specific shock component representing mutual affection. Divorces can …

This paper studies match formation and dissolution in frictional marriage markets under labor market uncertainty. We … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market …, individuals match assortatively on education and draw a match-specific shock component representing mutual affection. Divorces can …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

We study how technological change affects between‐ and within‐education‐group inequality in the United States. We … demand for skilled labor: technological change in firm‐specific productivity and technological change in labor productivity …. We find that technological change in labor productivity, in the form of higher returns to skill in production, is the …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model …

We investigate how job displacement affects whom men marry and study implications for marriage market matching theory … substitutes rather than complements in the marriage market; (ii) our findings are hard to reconcile with one-dimensional matching … if matched with low-earning women and to re-match with higher earning women. We use a general search and matching model …

unilateral divorce regime transitions across U.S. states in the 1970s. These shocks reduce marriage and labor-force participation …Why have so many young men left the U.S. workforce? This paper develops a model in which men earn a marriage market … return on past employment. It hypothesizes that this return declined as gender-role-specialized marriage became a less …