Italy that combines Social Security earnings records for employees with detailed financial information for employers to …

. Matching theory predicts that students' behavior in Chile should be strategic because they can list only up to eight options …

Matching efficiency is the productivity of the process for matching jobseekers to available jobs. Job-finding is the … output; vacant jobs and active jobseekers are the inputs. Measurement of matching efficiency follows the same principles as … measuring an index of productivity of production. We develop a framework for measuring matching productivity when the population …

, potentially complementary, input fixed. We introduce a class of such reallocations -- correlated matching rules -- that includes … the status quo allocation, a random allocation, and both the perfect positive and negative assortative matching …

If profit maximizing firms have limited information about the general productivity of new workers, they may choose to … credential value of education will depend on how quickly firms learn. To obtain information on employer learning, we work with a … education. The time path of the coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable provides information about the rate at …

We empirically test an information economics based theory of social preferences in which ego utility and self-signaling … a large price discount for the good. The combined evidence supports the self-signaling theory whereby price discounts … theories of motivation crowding are unable to fit the non-monotonic moments in the data. A structural model of self-signaling …