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Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching / John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, Ian M. Schmutte.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abowd, John M.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20472.
- NBER working paper series no. w20472
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Sorting Between and Within Industries
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.
- Summary:
- We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage heterogeneity across sectors. Our empirical method is general and can be applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker and employer components of wage heterogeneity are weakly correlated.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2014.
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