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 …

based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …

-sided matching model. It departs from the previous literature by allowing worker heterogeneity in productivity, which gives rise to a … double transaction problem in a hedonic model. Deriving sufficient conditions under which assortative matching is the unique … stable job-worker matching, we show that observed wage differentials between jobs reflect not only compensating wage …

This paper develops a matching framework of offshoring in which offshoring is defined as cross-country matching between … the matching framework in a two-country, two-task model in which workers and managers possess a continuum of skills …. Offshoring alters the matching mechanism, changes the span of control, and thereby influences inequality through differential …

across firms. By constructing a Becker-type worker-firm matching model in a global economy, we demonstrate underlying …