. Assortative matching between student advantage and school quality markedly increases with city size, accounting for 10% of the …

-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker … between the estimates of worker and firm quality. Both measures indicate that the degree of assortative matching, on average … to climb the job ladder at first. For this group, the increase in assortative matching increases after the third job …

-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker … the degree of assortative matching, on average, increases with each job move. For high-quality workers, this can be … assortative matching increases afer the third job, when they fall down the job ladder. Changes in worker-firm matching are also …

, workplace and assortative matching components. At the national level, we find that sorting increased its importance over time …