Bagger, Jesper; Elholm, Malthe; Maibom, Jonas; Vejlin, … - 2026
Using 1980-2019 Danish matched employer-employee data, we unpack the rise in wage sorting - the correlation between … employment from persistently low-sorting to persistently high-sorting firms, with the average sorting contribution of any given … workers in high-sorting firms rather than a systematic tendency of educated workers to form high-sorting matches across all …