Opportunity and Choice in Social Structured Labor Markets
Logan, John AllenWorking paper no. 1995-20
Logan, John AllenWorking paper no. 1995-20
Logan, John Allen Working paper no. 1996-07 Abstract The two-sided logit (TSL) model proposed in Logan 1996a is conceptually simple but computationally difficult. Conceptually, the TSL model represents occupational outcomes as resulting from mutually constraining preferences and resources of workers and firms. Applying the TSL model gives estimates of the importance of worker and job …
Logan, John Allen Working paper no. 1996-08 Abstract Hauser (1978) succinctly expressed a long-standing desideratum for the analysis of mobility regimes: to separate “rules of access” to social positions from “the interplay of supply and demand.” When an explicit, random matching model of opportunity is constructed from rules of access, with provisions for demand effects, …
Logan, John Allen, Peter D. Hoff, and Michael A. Newton Working paper no. 1999-31 Abstract We consider a parametric version of the two-sided matching model of marriage described in Roth and Sotomayor (1990). There are two matching populations, men and women. Members of each population have utilities for pairing with members of the other population, …