construct two direct measures of job matching based on how well an individual’s job corresponds to his or her college education … which better job matching of college-educated workers increases individual-level wages and thereby contributes to the urban … wage premium. While we find that college graduates with better job matches do indeed earn higher wages on average, the …

strongly suggests that reservation wages decline in the duration of search. This paper reports the results of the first real … constant. Nevertheless, subjects' reservation wages decline sharply over time. We investigate two hypotheses to explain this …

has directly estimated the joint impact of these different causes. In this paper, we view wages as arising out of a … specify an empirical model which allows us to estimate the general equilibrium relationship between wages and technology … increase the return to education. …

During the 1980s and early 1990s the earnings gap between individuals with a college education and those with no more … timing of this widening. In this paper we develop indices, based on industry of employment, of technological advancement and …

The limited nature of data on employment referrals in large business and household surveys has so far impeded our … efforts to understand the relationships among employment referrals, match quality, wage trajectories, and turnover. Using a …