workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker …

between worker skill and firm productivity is 0.12. The assortative matching has a substantial impact on wage dispersion. We … differ in their permanent skill level and firms differ with respect to productivity. Positive (negative) sorting results if …-employee data. We find evidence of positive assortative matching. In the estimated equilibrium match distribution, the correlation …

for any permanent differences in productivity across workers, firms, and job matches. We also compare OLS and instrumental …

matching function. Wages are determined through Nash bargaining. We also consider aggregate productivity shocks, and a complete … demonstrate that productivity changes in the model---in steady state as well as stochastic ones---generate rather limited …

Economists' productivity, as measured by publication in leading journals, declines very sharply with age. Additional … of optimal investment in human capital and especially with occupational matching models …

manager. We exploit the high degree of worker mobility across lines, together with worker-level productivity data, to estimate … the sorting of workers to managers. We find negative assortative matching (NAM) -that is, better managers tend to match … that if the firm were to positively sort, productivity would increase by 1 to 4 percent across the six factories in our …

Positive assortative matching refers to the tendency of individuals with similar characteristics to form partnerships …. Measuring the extent to which assortative matching differs between two economies is challenging when the marginal distributions …

and ii) there is assortative matching between a worker's productivity and that of her employer. Selective job acceptance … of similar productivity. The high surplus meetings result in matches more frequently, generating assortative matching …We develop a random search model with two-sided heterogeneity and match-specific productivity shocks to explain why …