wage premium across the whole earnings distribution. Taking advantage of RES, 90:290-299, 2008matching approach and …

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …-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 …

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …-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 …

North to be equally or more productive than in the South. Horizontal matching of skilled workers is generally imperfect and …

strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive … (negative) assortative matching, good workers are more (less) likely to move to better firms than bad workers. Assuming that … matching is pervasive in the labor market. This result is in contrast with what we find from correlating the worker and firm …

-displacement occupational matching in explaining the cost of job displacement. We combine German administrative data on the work history of …