) 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 …

This paper analyzes the allocation of workers to jobs and the wage distribution in Germany. Our main contribution is to … reconcile prominent empirical models of wage dispersion (Abowd et al., 1999; Card et al., 2013) with theoretical sorting models … increase is driven by selection into wage-maximizing matches at the bottom of the firm type distribution. It can be linked to …