Showing posts with label congestion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label congestion. Show all posts
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Congestion and signaling in the job market, as the ratio of applications to positions continues to rise

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 Aki Ito, at Business Insider, writes about how the number of job applications per position is growing, and how there's some exploratory...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Congestion in the job market, AI version

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  The Atlantic has this story on the job market, that contains a nice line... The Job Market Is Hell .  Young people are using ChatGPT to wr...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Congestion in online labor markets: too many applications

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 As online job ads make it easier to submit chatbot-assisted applications, companies are becoming overwhelmed. The WSJ has this story: How t...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Deceased organ allocation: deciding early when to move fast

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The deceased donor waiting list for kidneys to transplant is congested: offers, which take time to evaluate, are often rejected, while cold ...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Dating sites as matching markets: Bumble reimagined

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The NYT interviews Whitney Wolfe Herd, who co-founded Twitter in 2012, started Bumble in 2014, stepped down as Bumble CEO and is now resumin...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Freezing and thawing organs for transplant moves one step closer

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 In March, surgeons at Mass General Hospital thawed and transplanted a frozen pig organ into a pig.  The challenge of freezing and then thaw...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Mike Ostrovsky on congestion pricing (podcast)

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Congestion pricing: as it's happening: Congestion Pricing: Economics, Theory, Reality March 29, 2025 • 57 mins with @mostrovs @skom...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Donald Shoup (1938-2025) led the war on (too much) free parking

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 Here's his WSJ obit: Donald Shoup, a Parking Guru Who Reshaped the Urban Landscape, Dies at 86 An economist at UCLA, Shoup said free pa...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Stable Matching with Interviews, by Ashlagi, Chen, Roghani and Saberi

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 Job applicants can now easily submit many job applications, and so interviewing applicants, which is time consuming, has become a major sou...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Signaling to decongest job applications and interviews: update on the market for medical residents

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  Signaling for interviews is evolving in the market for new doctors, i.e. for medical residencies.  Some specialties are allowing a relativ...