An empirical assessment of assortative matching in the labor market
By: by Rute Mendes, Gerard J. van den Berg, Maarten Lindeboom
Contributors: Berg, Gerard Pieter van den, 1937-2004
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 3053; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 3053
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Labor market; Labor productivity
Description: "In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we relate this to the skill distribution of workers in the firm. We find that there is positive assortative matching, in particular among long-lived firms. Using skill-specific estimates of an index of search frictions, we find that the results can only to a small extent be explained by heterogeneity of search frictions across worker skill groups"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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