between trading firms, the presence of positive assortative matching among firms, and their evolution during the business …

among partners' skills in match output? We develop a matching model in which risk-averse agents, who differ in skills, match … that under plausible assumptions the risk-sharing benefit of marriage tends to push toward negative sorting on partners …' skills. To obtain the prediction of positive skill sorting--a robust empirical feature of marriage markets--this force needs …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross … determine match feasibility; (ii) technology, which determines the returns to matching; and (iii) idiosyncratic matching …

and assortative mating on returns is as strong as that on wealth. Third, post-marriage returns on family wealth are … largely explained by the return of the spouse with the highest pre-marriage return. This suggests that family wealth is … the wealth distribution at marriage. We use a simple analytical example to illustrate how assortative mating on wealth and …

be interpreted through a structural model of the marriage market; in particular, a crucial issue is how they relate to … variations in the economic surplus generated by marriage. We propose a very general criterion of increase in assortativeness, and … violates one of our conditions. Finally, we use our approach to evaluate the evolution of assortative matching in the US over …

the marriage market. We argue that a key advantage of this approach is that it creates a direct connection between changes … in assortativeness in marriage and changes in the value of marriage for the various possible matches by education group …