A model acknowledging technology and wage dispersion, search frictions, and costly worker turnover is used for testing the notion of random matching. Using a linked employer-employee data set on roughly 9,000 Norwegian establishments and 200,000 jobs during the period 1989-95, I show that...

In this study, Norwegian linked employer-employee panel data covering 1994-96 are used to estimate workers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for safety, thus providing unique comparisons between estimates of MWPs from hedonic wage, quit and job duration models. Hedonic wage regressions show...