Brookins, Philip; Lightle, John; Ryvkin, Dmitry - Department of Economics, Florida State University - 2014
optimal sorting is balanced (i.e., minimizing the variance in ability between groups) when complementarity is weak, and … sufficiently steep, the optimal sorting can be unbalanced for all levels of complementarity or even alternate between unbalanced … groups in various ways in order to maximize total output. We explore how the optimal sorting of workers by ability in such …