We review theories of race discrimination in the labor market. Taste-based models can
generate wage and unemployment duration differentials when combined with either random …

We develop a model of self-sustaining discrimination in wages, coupled with higher
unemployment and shorter employment duration among blacks. While white workers are …

This paper studies the efficiency of educational choices in a two sector/two schooling level
matching model of the labor market where a continuum of heterogenous workers allocates …

This paper provides a directed search model designed to explain the residual part of wage
variation left over after the impact of education and other observable worker characteristics …

African Americans face shorter employment durations than similar Whites. We hypothesise
that employers discriminate in acquiring or acting on ability-relevant information. In our …

This study investigates the existence of hiring criteria associated with the degree of social
connections between skill and low-skill workers. We provide evidence about to what extent …

Well-being has been greatly researched in the fields of psychology, health, and medicine.
However, based on a review of more than 100 articles around this problem, research …

This thesis consists of three essays in economic theory, two on search models with
information acquisition and one on repeated games when precise information about …

This thesis starts, theoretically, with the informativeness of signals when information is
imperfect, followed by the applications on the credit and tabor markets. In chapter 2 we show …

Competitive Market Segmentation Abstract In a two-firm model where each firm sells a high-
quality and a low-quality version of a product, customers differ with respect to their brand …