We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret … these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms' underlying gender preferences … from firms' propensities to restrict their search to their preferred gender. The model also predicts that higher job skill …

The Internet has the potential to reduce search frictions by allowing individuals to identify faster a larger set of …. This paper empirically examines the implications of Internet diffusion in the United States since the 1990s on one aspect … marriage markets. I also provide some suggestive evidence that Internet has likely crowded out other traditional meeting venues …

Despite the mixed empirical evidence, many economists stillhold to the view that Internet will promote competition … betweenfirms,thereby lowering prices and increasing economic welfare. This paperpresents a search model that provides a different …, but reduce prices when consumers search intensityis high. These different comparative statics results may explain themixed …

We study the steady state of an overlapping generations economy where singles search for spouses. In our model economy … free parameters: the search friction and the utility share of bearing children. We choose their values to match the median …

In a two-sector, general-equilibrium model with labor-market search frictions, we find that wage increases and sectoral …