Aggregation in Matching Markets

Dagsvik, John K.

doi:10.1111/1468-2354.00054

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“…The opportunity structure determines the probability that someone is able to realise his or her preferences. The choice of partner is constrained by the demographic composition of the search area and the type and number of meeting places people frequent (England & Farkas, 1986;Mare, 1991;Blossfeld & Meyer 1988;Dagsvik, 2000;Kalmijn & Flap, 2001). A literature review by Houston and colleagues (2005) shows that the marriage market metaphor is used to study the relative availability of suitable partners at the local (e.g., Ní Bhrolcháin et al, 2002), regional (e.g., Lichter et al,.…”

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The Globalisation of Marriage Fields: The Swedish Case

Niedomysl

Östh

Ham

2010

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Marriage fields -the geographical areas where people meet to partnertraditionally tend to be relatively small and local. Increasing international travel and the use of internet have broadened the geographical opportunity structure of potential partners. This increases the risk of meeting a partner from abroad, possibly resulting in an increase of international marriage migration. This paper uses unique longitudinal population data for the whole of Sweden to explore the globalisation of Swedish marriage fields. The results show an increase of marriage migrants in Sweden between 1990 and 2004, although absolute numbers remain relatively low. The paper yields two new insights not previously recorded in the literature. The first is that we found a substantial proportion of all marriage migrants in Sweden to be males while most existing literature on marriage migration focuses almost exclusively on females. The second is that the pattern of geographical origins of marriage migrants is highly gendered with male and female marriage migrants in Sweden originating from different regions in the world. The results suggest that different mechanisms underlie male and female marriage migration.

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Section: The Marriage Marketmentioning

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The Globalisation of Marriage Fields: The Swedish Case

Niedomysl

Östh

Ham

2010

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…This means of course that the estimated model only can be applied to simulate behavior conditional on the opportunity density. In Dagsvik (2000), it is suggested how an explicit equilibrium model version can be specified and how the opportunity density depends on workers' preferences and firms' technologies.…”

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Sectoral labour supply, choice restrictions and functional form

Dagsvik

Strøm

2006

J of Applied Econometrics

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In this paper we discuss a general framework for analyzing labor supply behavior in the presence of complicated budget-and quantity constraints of which some are unobserved. The point of departure is that an individual's labor supply decision can be considered as a choice from a set of discrete alternatives (jobs). These jobs are characterized by attributes such as hours of work, sector specific wages and other sector specific aspects of the jobs. We focus in particular on theoretical justification of functional form assumptions and properties of the random components of the model. The paper includes an empirical application based on Norwegian data, in which the labor supply of married women is estimated.JEL classification: J22,C51.Key words: Labor supply, non-convex budget sets, non-pecuniary job-attributes, sector-specific wages. ___________________________________ * Statistics Norway, Oslo. E-mail: john.dagsvik@ssb.no ** Department of Economics, University of Oslo. E-mail: steinar.strom@econ.uio.no We are indebted to Tom Wennemo for skillful programming assistance and Rolf Aaberge for constructive critisism throughout the revision process. We thank two anonymous referees and the editor for useful comments and helpful suggestions.We also thank James J. Heckman for valuable comments on an earlier version of the paper and Anne Skoglund for proof reading and word processing. S.Strøm is grateful to ICER, Turin, for providing excellent working conditions. 2

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“…The model is based on Dagsvik (2000) where it is demonstrated that a general type of matching behavior imply, under specific assumptions about the distribution of the preferences of the women and men, a convenient expression for the corresponding marriage model.…”

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“…The literature on matching behavior does not, however, consider the aggregation problem of predicting the number of matches of each type as a function of the number of agents of each type and parameters that represent the corresponding distribution of preferences. This aggregation problem was analyzed by Dagsvik (2000) who derived a particular aggregate matching model from assumptions about the distribution of preferences of the agents in the market and assumptions about the rules of the matching behavior. The model proposed by Dagsvik (2000) offers therefore the possibility of establishing a behavioral two-sex marriage model.…”

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“…This aggregation problem was analyzed by Dagsvik (2000) who derived a particular aggregate matching model from assumptions about the distribution of preferences of the agents in the market and assumptions about the rules of the matching behavior. The model proposed by Dagsvik (2000) offers therefore the possibility of establishing a behavioral two-sex marriage model.…”

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