fims cannot offer long-term contracts, we find that individuals who are naive about their present bias will actually be … ineffciencies caused by their present bias. …

firms cannot offer long-term contracts, we find that individuals who are naive about their present bias will actually be … inefficiencies caused by their present bias. …

We analyze marital matching on income using an extremely rich Dutch data set containing all income tax files over four … years. We develop a novel methodology that directly extends previous contributions to allow for highly flexible matching … assortative matching. We also show that standard approaches, which consider all married couples using current incomes, may …

while in others women confront a bias in referrals. Finally, the literature has moved from use of observational data into …

In this paper we extend a job search-matching model with firm-specific investments in training developed by Mortensen … framework and the search-matching framework (eg. Pissarides, 1990). Second, it improves the correspondence between the …

increasing in h, where h is worker skill and p is firm productivity). In this sense, the positive assortative matching result in … Becker (1973) is shown to generalize to this paper's search friction setting. However, the positive assortative matching …

much firm specific human capital to accumulate, but it is inconsistent with job matching models …

I propose a new search-and-matching model in which wage rigidity and volatile unemployment endogenously arise. The …