Matching in Labor Markets and Epidemics

劳动力市场与疫情的匹配

• 批准号: 9414126
• 负责人: Michael Kremer
• 金额: $ 10.5万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1994
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1994-08-01 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9414126&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Matching; Labor; Markets; Epidemics

This research encompasses two projects. The first will analyze the simultaneous increase in inequality and in the segregation of high skill workers into separate firms. It appears that workers have been moving from firms like General Motors, which combine workers of different skills, to firms like Microsoft or McDonalds which hire workers of similar skills. A model will be developed to explore this phenomenon. An implication of the model is that either skill-based technological progress or increased skill dispersion can cause high skill workers to segregate into separate firms and reduce wages of low skill workers. The second part of the project will develop and test a model of the spread of AIDS based on matching of sexual partners under various assumptions about the information concerning the risk of infection. In addition, an epidemiological analysis of how behavior affects HIV prevalence will be integrated with an economic analysis of how HIV prevalence affects incentives for individuals behavior.

这项研究包括两个项目。 第一部分将分析不平等和高技能工人被隔离到不同公司的同时增加。 工人们似乎已经从通用汽车这样的联合收割机这样的公司转移到微软或麦当劳这样的公司，这些公司雇用的工人技能相似。 将建立一个模型来探讨这一现象。 该模型的一个含义是，无论是基于技能的技术进步或增加技能分散可以导致高技能工人分离到单独的公司，降低低技能工人的工资。 该项目的第二部分将根据对感染风险信息的各种假设，根据性伴侣的配对，开发和测试艾滋病传播模式。 此外，将把行为如何影响艾滋病毒流行的流行病学分析与艾滋病毒流行如何影响个人行为动机的经济分析结合起来。