Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners … marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a … distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that …

couples. We find that of the couples who married in the city, the ones who stay in the city have significant higher divorce … rates. Similarly, for the couples who married outside the city, the ones who move to the city are more likely to divorce …

This Paper demonstrates that women search longer for their first or second husband in cities with higher male wage … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …

is used one quarter of the time. A choice-theoretic general equilibrium search model is constructed to analyze the … (some forms of promoting condoms or marriage), the quantitative exercise suggests that these effects may increase HIV …

respected in addition to the standard constraint involving costly unobservable job-search. In particular, we derive closed …

cartel/fringe model that incorporates search and contracting. The model predicts that cartel prices exceed those on the …

newspaper. Unemployment occurs in occupations that are short on vacancies. New vacancies are created by entrepreneurial search … subsidize entrepreneurial investment (there is a wage bargaining distortion and a search externality), simulations show that the …

establish long positions in a search spot market, or short positions by first borrowing an asset in a search repo market. We … show that short-sellers can endogenously concentrate in one asset because of search externalities and the constraint that … they must deliver the asset they borrowed. That asset enjoys greater liquidity, measured by search times, and a higher …

underlying theory is the search and matching model, with workers and firms engaging in costly search leading to random matching …

This paper surveys recent work in equilibrium models of labor markets characterized by search and recruitment frictions …