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Orefice, Gianluca - 2020

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …

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A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Abowd, John M. - 2009

We estimate a structural model of job assignment in the presence of coordination frictions due to Shimer (2005). The coordination friction model places restrictions on the joint distribution of worker and firm effects from a linear decomposition of log labor earnings. These restrictions permit...

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Heterogeneity and Cyclical Unemployment

Bils, Mark - 2009

We model worker heterogeneity in the rents from being employed in a Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides model of matching and …

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Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets : Evidence from Rural Malawi

Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2014

An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. We use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed...

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