Search Results - subject:"pre-matching investment"

On the sorting of physicians across medical occupations

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - 2008

We model the sorting of medical students across medical occupations and identify a mechanism that explains the possibility of differential productivity across occupations. The model combines moral hazard and matching of physicians and occupations with pre-matching investments. In equilibrium...

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On the Sorting of Physicians across Medical Occupations

Courty, Pascal; Marschke, Gerald - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, moral hazard, incentives, matching, pre-matching investment, career choice, medical specialization Corresponding … extent endogenous. We also con- sider pre-matching investment by physicians to capture the e ort supplied during medical … the stage one pre-matching investment choices. The de nition of W2;SB(c;s) becomes clear. In period two, physician c and …

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Discrimination, technology and unemployment

Merlino, Luca Paolo - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 4, pp. 557-567

I study the interaction between discrimination and investment using a directed search model where firms decide the capital intensity of their production technologies before being matched. Discrimination makes some workers cheap to hire. As a consequence, some firms might save on capital costs...

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Discrimination, technology and unemployment

Merlino, Luca Paolo - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 19 (2012) 4, pp. 557-567

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690204