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 …

between trading firms, the presence of positive assortative matching among firms, and their evolution during the business …

among partners' skills in match output? We develop a matching model in which risk-averse agents, who differ in skills, match …. We then highlight a new implication of positive sorting on exogenous skills for matching patterns on endogenous …

on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a signal of interest to … one employer, facilitates matches in such markets. We find that introducing a signaling mechanism increases the welfare of … workers and the number of matches, while the change in firm welfare is ambiguous. A signaling mechanism adds the most value …

In this paper, I analyze recent findings by Coe and Helpman (1995) on trade-related international R&D spillovers. A …. The finding casts doubt on the claim that patterns of international trade are important in driving R&D spillovers …