There is a negative mean-dispersion relationship between the log of mean annual hours in an occupation and the standard deviation of log annual hours in that occupation. We document this pattern using data from the 1976-2011 Current Population Survey (CPS) and various Survey of Income and...

We show theoretically how to identify, using wage data alone, whether assortative matching between workers and firms is positive or negative. The results of a Monte Carlo study of calibrated models featuring positive and negative sorting illustrate that the method performs well given the...