Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …. This could be the result of a bias caused by standard estimation error. Using German social security records we show that … the effect of this bias is substantial in samples with limited inter-firm movement. The correlation between worker and …

werden. -- wage setting ; hiring standards ; wage rigidity ; wage curve ; matching ; censoring …

Many biases plague the estimation of rent sharing in labour markets. Using a Portuguese matched employer-employee panel …

Using a linked employer-employee data set for Germany, this paper analyzes labour fluctuation and wage setting in a …