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 paper analyses the efficiency of the equilibrium allocation in a matching model with two types of workers and jobs …

This paper analyzes assortative matching between employers and employees and its interrelations with the employment … matching. The correlation between both quality measures is positive. Wage gains amount up to 4% when both quality levels are … equal. In a fairly general matching model, this shape of the wage curve arises due to complementarities of qualities in the …

based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low …