) low-wage firms and low-wage workers are more likely to match via networks or the public agency, while high-wage firms and … high-wage workers succeed more often via job postings; (ii) job postings help firms the most in poaching and attracting … high-wage workers and help workers the most in climbing the job ladder. To evaluate the implications of these findings for …

differentials. The model generates a simple (log) wage variance decomposition that is used to measure the importance of firm and … worker productivity differentials, frictional wage dispersion and workers' sorting dynamics. I calibrate the model using a … sample of young workers for the UK. I show that wage inequality among low skilled workers is mostly due to differences in …

search effort and wage policies play only a minor role. …