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 …

This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey … (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps … order to address the difficulties of comparing like with like this study uses a number of different matching techniques to …

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

analysed by gender. Basic results are: health worsens, income declines and satisfaction is poorer with higher body mass index …. If control variables are added, estimates are split by gender and different effects of over- and underweight people are … interdependencies are taken into account and matching procedures are applied, the outcome matches to that of independent and unmatched …