Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

Unemployment arises from frictions in the matching of job-seekers and employers. The level of resources that employers …

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 …

facts can be explained by a search and matching model when firms are heterogenous with respect to productivity, are composed …