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 …
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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 …