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Research paper thumbnail of Marriage and the City

CEPR Discussion Paper Series, 2005

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet mo... more Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that singles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples are more likely to make the reverse movement. A second prediction of the model is that attractive singles benefit most from a dense market (i.e. from being choosy). Those predictions are tested with a unique Danish dataset.

Research paper thumbnail of Worker turnover at therm level and crowding out of lower educated workers

Research paper thumbnail of Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values

Research paper thumbnail of Separations at the Firm Level

Contributions to Economic Analysis, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers

European Economic Review, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Dutch Economists Top 40

Research paper thumbnail of Displaced Workers in the Net herlands”

Research paper thumbnail of G.(2002). Workers Turnover at the Firm Level and Crowding Out of Lower Educated Workers

Research paper thumbnail of Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions With Multiple Applications

Research paper thumbnail of On-the-Job Search and Sorting

Cepr Discussion Papers, 2006

... This paper incorporates on-the-job search into a matching model with a continuum of worker an... more ... This paper incorporates on-the-job search into a matching model with a continuum of worker and job types. Incorporating two-sided heterogeneity into a search model is useful because one of the most important functions of the labor market is to find the right man for the job. ...

Research paper thumbnail of murder on house prices in Amsterdam

Research paper thumbnail of The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam

Research paper thumbnail of The timing of pollution abatement investments and the business cycle: an international comparison

Research paper thumbnail of Displaced Workers in the

Research paper thumbnail of Simultaneous search and recruitment

Studies analyzing equilibrium effects of labor market policies typically assume bilateral meeting... more Studies analyzing equilibrium effects of labor market policies typically assume bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the magnitude of these frictions. For this purpose, I present an equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Firms post a wage and a recruitment technology that determines how many applicants they will interview. After observing these contracts, workers decide to which firms to apply. Send-ing more applications and interviewing more applicants are both costly activities but increase the probability to match. In equilibrium, contract dispersion arises endogenously and work-ers spread their applications over the different types of contracts. The model is estimated on the Employment Opportunities Pilot Projects data set. The cost of an appl...

Research paper thumbnail of Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Search costs and efficiency: Do unemployed workers search enough?

European Economic Review, 2015

ABSTRACT Many labor market policies affect the marginal benefits and costs of job search. The imp... more ABSTRACT Many labor market policies affect the marginal benefits and costs of job search. The impact and desirability of such policies depend on the distribution of search costs. In this paper, we provide an equilibrium framework for identifying the distribution of search costs and we apply it to the Dutch labor market. In our model, the wage distribution, job search intensities, and firm entry are simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. Given the distribution of search intensities (which we directly observe), we calibrate the search cost distribution and the flow value of non-market time; these values are then used to derive the socially optimal firm entry rates and distribution of job search intensities. From a social point of view, some unemployed workers search too little due to a hold-up problem, while other unemployed workers search too much due to coordination frictions and rent-seeking behavior. Our results indicate that jointly increasing unemployment benefits and the sanctions for unemployed workers who do not search at all can be welfare-improving.

Research paper thumbnail of Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 5 Labor Market Search with Two-Sided Heterogeneity: Hierarchical versus Circular Models

Contributions to Economic Analysis, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Efficient Entry in Competing Auctions †

American Economic Review, 2014

ABSTRACT In this paper, we demonstrate the efficiency of seller entry in a model of competing auc... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we demonstrate the efficiency of seller entry in a model of competing auctions in which we allow for both buyer and seller heterogeneity. This generalizes existing efficiency results in the competitive search literature by simultaneously allowing for nonrival (many-on-one) meetings and private information.

Research paper thumbnail of Marriage and the City

CEPR Discussion Paper Series, 2005

Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet mo... more Do people move to cities because of marriage market considerations? In cities singles can meet more potential partners than in rural areas. Singles are therefore prepared to pay a premium in terms of higher housing prices. Once married, the marriage market benefits disappear while the housing premium remains. We extend the model of Burdett and Coles (1997) with a distinction between efficient (cities) and less efficient (non-cities) search markets. One implication of the model is that singles are more likely to move from rural areas to cities while married couples are more likely to make the reverse movement. A second prediction of the model is that attractive singles benefit most from a dense market (i.e. from being choosy). Those predictions are tested with a unique Danish dataset.

Research paper thumbnail of Worker turnover at therm level and crowding out of lower educated workers

Research paper thumbnail of Intra Firm Bargaining and Shapley Values

Research paper thumbnail of Separations at the Firm Level

Contributions to Economic Analysis, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Worker turnover at the firm level and crowding out of lower educated workers

European Economic Review, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Dutch Economists Top 40

Research paper thumbnail of Displaced Workers in the Net herlands”

Research paper thumbnail of G.(2002). Workers Turnover at the Firm Level and Crowding Out of Lower Educated Workers

Research paper thumbnail of Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions With Multiple Applications

Research paper thumbnail of On-the-Job Search and Sorting

Cepr Discussion Papers, 2006

... This paper incorporates on-the-job search into a matching model with a continuum of worker an... more ... This paper incorporates on-the-job search into a matching model with a continuum of worker and job types. Incorporating two-sided heterogeneity into a search model is useful because one of the most important functions of the labor market is to find the right man for the job. ...

Research paper thumbnail of murder on house prices in Amsterdam

Research paper thumbnail of The effect of the Theo van Gogh murder on house prices in Amsterdam

Research paper thumbnail of The timing of pollution abatement investments and the business cycle: an international comparison

Research paper thumbnail of Displaced Workers in the

Research paper thumbnail of Simultaneous search and recruitment

Studies analyzing equilibrium effects of labor market policies typically assume bilateral meeting... more Studies analyzing equilibrium effects of labor market policies typically assume bilateral meetings between workers and firms. This ignores the frictions that arise when workers and firms meet in a multilateral way and cannot coordinate their application and hiring decisions. I analyze the magnitude of these frictions. For this purpose, I present an equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Firms post a wage and a recruitment technology that determines how many applicants they will interview. After observing these contracts, workers decide to which firms to apply. Send-ing more applications and interviewing more applicants are both costly activities but increase the probability to match. In equilibrium, contract dispersion arises endogenously and work-ers spread their applications over the different types of contracts. The model is estimated on the Employment Opportunities Pilot Projects data set. The cost of an appl...

Research paper thumbnail of Sorting and the Output Loss Due to Search Frictions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Search costs and efficiency: Do unemployed workers search enough?

European Economic Review, 2015

ABSTRACT Many labor market policies affect the marginal benefits and costs of job search. The imp... more ABSTRACT Many labor market policies affect the marginal benefits and costs of job search. The impact and desirability of such policies depend on the distribution of search costs. In this paper, we provide an equilibrium framework for identifying the distribution of search costs and we apply it to the Dutch labor market. In our model, the wage distribution, job search intensities, and firm entry are simultaneously determined in market equilibrium. Given the distribution of search intensities (which we directly observe), we calibrate the search cost distribution and the flow value of non-market time; these values are then used to derive the socially optimal firm entry rates and distribution of job search intensities. From a social point of view, some unemployed workers search too little due to a hold-up problem, while other unemployed workers search too much due to coordination frictions and rent-seeking behavior. Our results indicate that jointly increasing unemployment benefits and the sanctions for unemployed workers who do not search at all can be welfare-improving.

Research paper thumbnail of Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of Chapter 5 Labor Market Search with Two-Sided Heterogeneity: Hierarchical versus Circular Models

Contributions to Economic Analysis, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Efficient Entry in Competing Auctions †

American Economic Review, 2014

ABSTRACT In this paper, we demonstrate the efficiency of seller entry in a model of competing auc... more ABSTRACT In this paper, we demonstrate the efficiency of seller entry in a model of competing auctions in which we allow for both buyer and seller heterogeneity. This generalizes existing efficiency results in the competitive search literature by simultaneously allowing for nonrival (many-on-one) meetings and private information.

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