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Cohabitation versus marriage: Marriage matching with peer effects

Mourifie, Ismael; Siow, Aloysius - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2015

This paper proposes an easy to estimate Cobb Douglas marriage matching function (MMF). Special cases include the Choo Siow (CS) MMF, CS with peer effects, CS with frictional transfers, the Dagsvik Menzel non-transferable utility MMF and Chiappori, Salanie and Weiss MMF. Given population supplies...

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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Work

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...

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Social Networks and Peer Effects at Works

Beugnot, Julie; Fortin, Bernard; Lacroix, Guy; … - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013

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Informal versus Formal Search: Which Yields a Better Pay?

Tumen, Semih - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Estimates on the effect of job contact method -- i.e., informal versus formal search -- on wage offers vary considerably across studies, with some of them finding a positive correlation between getting help from informal connections and obtaining high-paying jobs, while others finding a negative...

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Peer effects in collaborative content generation: The evidence from German Wikipedia

Slivko, Olga - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on articles' talk pages work in collaborative manner engaging in communication about their work. Thus they can be considered as peers who are likely to influence each other. In this...

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Specialization, outsourcing and wages

Munch, Jakob Roland; Rose Skaksen, Jan - 2005

, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains arising from an increase in the division of labor, domestic …

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Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices

Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021

We model the process of field specialization choice among beginning economists within a multivariate logit framework … that accommodates single and dual primary field specializations and incorporates correlations among field specialization … specialization dissimilarity. Preferences and characteristics contribute about equally to field specialization dissimilarity. …

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Gender Differences in Economics PhD Field Specializations with Correlated Choices

Sierminska, Eva; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2021

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Job turnover, risk sharing, and regional wages in Western Germany

Heuermann, Daniel F. - 2008

specialization and diversification mitigate wage depressing effects of different types of employment shocks. On the firm level, shock …

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Occupational feminization, specialized human capital and wages: Evidence from the British labour market

Perales, Francisco - 2010

Research has consistently demonstrated a negative and significant relationship between occupational feminization and wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More recently, empirical evidence from the US and Europe has...

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