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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Assortative matching"”.
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Inequality within and between New Zealand urban areas
… immigration and patterns of educational assortative matching on the changes in the distribution of income over time and across areas. Multiple decomposition analyses are used to examine the composition and within-group distribution effects of ageing and immigration, while a counterfactual …
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Three essays on international trade
… The competitive equilibrium features positive assortative matching and leads to both within- and between- firm wage variations. Comparative static results are then derived to generate new insights about changes in these components of wage inequality.
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Essays on Network formation games
… configurations: Utopia network, positive assortative matching, and disassortative matching. We derive the specific conditions under which they arise in a Nash equilibrium. In Chapter 3, we study a generalized model of signed network formation game where the players can choose not only …
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Essays on wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
… The main questions are if there is a systematic matching in the labor market and if this matching pattern creates advantages for both parties. I devote attention to the identification of accurate quality measures: plants' total factor productivity and workers' fixed effect. Two different methods …
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Intergenerational and Occupational Mobility
… important roles for occupational mobility and assortative matching.
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Essays on institutions in developing economies
… first chapter, I develop a theory of endogenous matching between heterogeneously risk-averse individuals who, once matched, choose both the riskiness of the income stream they face (ex ante risk management) as well as how to share that risk (ex post risk management). I find a clean condition on …
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Essays on applied econometrics
… estimates determinants of adolescent romantic matching using a maximum score estimator. Sorting patterns are suggested from the results. Findings are consistent with the literature, but more detailed results are revealed. In line with the literature, I find evidence of positive assortative …
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Essays In Two-Sided Markets With Intermediaries
… with intermediaries that can facilitate matching, search and trades. The first chapter considers the welfare and distributional consequences of introducing the student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism in a model where schools have exogenous qualities and the benefit from attending …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… workers. This creates an incentive for positive assortative matching based on talent. While search frictions prevent perfect sorting, deepening skill specialization reinforces complementarities, leading to an equilibrium in which some firms have “superstar teams” of talented workers, while other …