this study examines the factors influencing women’s quest of divorce in tehran. the research framework is based on the theory of order (within the family), social capital theory, and matching partnership. research method was survey and the instrument of the study was questionnaires. 239 seeking divorce women and the same number of non-seeking divorce women were given the questionnaires. they we...

This paper constructs a labor-market matching model with heterogeneous workers. Due to matching frictions, there may be a mismatch of talents within a production team, forcing a worker to specialize in a task at which she is not talented. We consider a partnership model where production takes place in teams consisting of two workers. We characterize the steadystate of the matching equilibrium. ...

P A M E L A R . D . W I L L I A M S , * , † D A N I E L I N M A N , ‡ A N D Y A D E N , ‡ A N D G A R V I N A . H E A T H § E Risk Sciences, LLP, 4647 Carter Trail, Boulder, Colorado 80301, National BioEnergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, Colorado, and Strategic Energy Analysis Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden...

It was in December 2002, and Peter Sullivan, partner in charge of the audit engagement at Softnet Systems was becoming uneasy with their client’s accounting practices. Peter was a partner at John Sanders LLP, a global public accounting firm that had been appointed as the new auditors of Softnet. Although the firm was a new client to John Sanders LLP, Peter’s firm regarded Softnet as a very impo...

This paper considers a dynamic partnership model in which agents’ future productivity depends in part on their current match. Efficient rankings over human capital distributions are characterized in several common stochastic orders. These rankings are used to characterize the returns to human capital for individual agents in the associated market equilibrium. Assortative matching theorems are d...

An obvious task in open innovation is to find suitable partners for collaboration. In this paper we present results from three participatory case studies of identifying and matching technology firms for collaborative innovation projects. We observe that matchmaking is a more complex process than an (online) market transaction. The cases show how innovation intermediaries organize the matching p...

The paper provides a possible explanation for the occurrence of uniform, fixedproportion rules for sharing surplus in two-sided markets. We study a two-sided matching model with transferable utility where agents are characterized by privately known, multi-dimensional attributes that jointly determine the surplus of each potential partnership. We ask the following question: for what divisions of...