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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Positive Assortative Matching"”.
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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
… Nash equilibrium 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 …
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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 wage and productivity disparities: empirical studies with a regional focus in Germany and Brazil
… sectors. Only for a subset of industries, some positive evidence is detected for knowledge spillovers. Chapter 2 analyzes labor market pooling in greater detail, but with a slightly different modeling than in chapter 1. Here, the central aspect of labor market pooling is based on the quality of …
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Essays on the Macroeconomics of Labor Markets
… talented 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, …