Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that … the effect of this bias is substantial in samples with limited inter-firm movement. The correlation between worker and …

Using a large German linked employer-employee data set and methods of competing risks analysis, this paper investigates …

test using a data set that combines Social Security earnings records for workers in the Veneto region of Italy with … because some of the returns to sunk capital are captured by workers. We propose a simple test for the degree of hold-up based …

Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching … between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand …

, recent evidence based on Census data indicates a slowdown in the rate of earnings assimilation. We find that the pace of … immigrant wage convergence based on recent data may be understated in the literature due to the method used by the Census to … share of immigrants in the workforce and earnings imputation rates have risen over time, imputation match bias for recent …

administrative sources allowing for comparisons between and within firms, and in which workers can be followed over time. In the … negotiations in the Netherlands, our findings suggest that market forces were the main determinant of wage growth. Workers with …-skilled workers in industries with large increases in demand than in other industries. Variation in wage growth was mainly at the …

We investigate whether the costs of job displacement differ between blue collar and white collar workers. In the short … run earnings and employment losses are substantial for both groups but stronger for white collar workers. In the long run …, there are only weak effects for blue collar workers but strong and persistent effects for white collars. This is consistent …

. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 … arisen from a combination of rising heterogeneity between workers, rising dispersion in the wage premiums at different … establishments, and increasing assortativeness in the assignment of workers to plants. In contrast, the idiosyncratic job …

Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … blue-collar workers' sickness absences was abolished (firms did not receive a similar refund for their white-collar workers …