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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Search model"”.
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An endogenous search model and its applications
The existing literature on empirical job search models concentrates on studying the effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits, and the primary interest has been in male displaced workers. It is usually assumed that displaced workers start to search for new jobs immediately after the …
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE IN LABOR SEARCH MODEL AND MONEY DEMAND
… In a heterogeneous constructed labor search market we derive that introduction of the UI program increases the wage gap between the different individuals when the program impacts the productivity of firm positively. In an empirical investigation of the impact of unemployment benefits …
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A job-search model of migration between metropolitan areas.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Developing a user-cordial online retrieval model strategy to access extension educational materials from a north central region database
… Materials Project (NCREMP) information search system by developing an online search strategy that is an easily-used tool for Extension personnel seeking information from electronic sources, and to examine characteristics that promote positive adoption of electronic communication systems …
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Essays on applied macroeconomics and monetary policy
… debt. I utilize the advances made in money search model to analyze the policy regimes. I find that while there are some similarities between the regime, there are also significant differences. I also find that the results using money-search model can be different than using a reduced form …
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Probabilistic search: a Bayesian approach in a continuous workspace
This thesis considers the problem of modeling search for a single, non-moving target in a continuous environment, where the search agent's only observations are obtained from a binary sensor. To model this problem, the widely used Bayesian filtering approach is employed to obtain the general …
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The effects of accountability, justification and consensus on a decision-maker's information search behavior
… major issues. First, to extend the Information Search model (Cooper and Sniezek, 1990) to explain the decision-making process under varying levels of consensus and accountability. Second, to examine, in detail, the relative effects of inter-adviser consensus and judge-adviser consensus on the …
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Applications of Search Theory in Finance
<p>In this dissertation, I apply two types of search based theoretical models to interpret two important issues in finance, respectively. (1)The first essay belongs to the field of corporate finance, in which a random search model is set up to describe the pre-IPO market searching and matching …
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The economic and contracting issues of in-home child care: the nanny market
… contracting issues of asymmetric information, search costs, transaction costs, uncertainty and risk. The market is best-explained as a search model and its behavior is driven by solutions to contracting problems.
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Three Essays on Worker Displacement
… displacement. Chapter 2 simulates an on-the-job search model to match the finding that 39% of workers earn more after displacement. I first examine an on-the-job search model under the assumption that workers know the distribution of earnings and I find evidence of substantial on-the-job search …
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Job search strategies and social networks : evidence from the Khayelitsha
… factors which determine the choice of the search method used by the unemployed in looking for jobs. In line with the existing literature on job search in South Africa we identify that job search is constrained by the low probability of finding a job and the cost of job search. Especially in …
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Essays on Housing Market Search and Dynamics
<p>This dissertation comprises two papers on search in the housing market. The first paper looks at the effects of equity constraints and loss aversion on the home selling problem. The empirical findings are consistent with a search model where sellers with low equity in their homes and sellers …
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Two processing modes in visual search
… Integration Theory and Cave and Wolfe's Guided Search Model are currently the two most prominent and widely accepted theories of visual search. Each accounts for data in a variety of paradigms but it appears that the principal theoretical position of each, that individual attributes of objects …
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Implementation of an airline recovery model in an event-based simulation
… taken to implement an airline schedule recovery model in a realistic simulation of the U.S. airspace system are presented. The MIT Extensible Network Simulation (MEANS), an event based queueing model of the U.S. National Airspace System, can be used for tactical decision making, long term …
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Essays in Competition and Investment in Electricity Market
… with different prices. The first paper uses search cost and product differentiation to explain the price dispersion using only data on price. If search costs are present, the search burden can lead to market inefficiency. If product differentiation is the main cause of price dispersion, the …
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Essays on money and banking: a search-theoretic approach
… In the first chapter, I develop a monetary-search model where the money multiplier is endogenously determined. I show that when the central bank pays interest on reserves, the money multiplier and the quantity of the reserve can depend on the nominal interest rate and the interest on …
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Entity-relation search: context pattern driven extraction and indexing
Our research focuses on searching relations between entities with context constraints. In particular, we are interested in efficiently searching for the relations among medical entities (e.g. diseases, chemicals, species, genes, or mutations) in a professional medical corpus. Existing relation …
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Anthropomorphic Model for Medical Image Quality Assessment
… and evaluation of an anthropomorphic visual search model observer. The model incorporates a novel threshold mechanism inspired by human visual system principles, particularly emphasizing the selective processing of high-salience features. This mechanism aims to enhance discrimination …
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Semantic and phonological context effects in visual search
Visual search requires participants to search for a pre-specified target amongst a number of distractors. According to theories of visual search, attention is directed towards the target through a combination of stimulus-driven (bottom-up) and goal-driven (top-down) means. For example, when …
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Three Essays On The Acquisition Of Information
… purpose of the second essay, entitled "Search and Price Advertising", is to study the role and implications of price advertising when the acquisition of price information is costly to consumers. Advertising is introduced into a random sequential search model. The model generates …
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