individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two … considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the fraction of very satisfied workers from 53.8 to 58.8 percent …

This paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs …

How are the welfare costs from monopoly distributed across U.S. households? We answer this question for the U.S. credit … observed in the data. Welfare gains from competitive reforms in the 1970s are equivalent to a one-time transfer worth between 0 …. Transitioning from 1970 to 2016 levels of competition yields welfare gains equivalent to a one-time transfer worth between 1.87 and …

welfare losses – combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years – depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … lines are set differently for poor, middle and high-income countries and/or a greater welfare weight is placed on mortality …

The success of the flat rate tax in Eastern Europe suggests that this concept could also be a model for the welfare … allowance yields positive static welfare effects amounting to approximately 1.8 per cent of income tax revenue but increases … problematic distributional impact, flat tax reforms are unlikely to spill over to the welfare states of Western Europe. …

individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is possible to assess these latter gains from matching. We introduce a two … considerable gains from matching amounting to an increase in the fraction of very satisfied workers from 53.8 to 58.8 percent …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

market is characterized by assortative matching, and endogenously-determined sharing rules form the basis of intra …-household allocations. By incorporating pre-marital investments and spousal matching into the collective household model, we are able to …

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in … criteria applied for admission they all make use of priority matching. In priority matching schemes, it is not a dominant … applicants, we are able to detect some amount of strategic behaviour which can lead to inefficient matching. Alternative ways to …