power. A simple matching model shows that the lighthouse effect may be induced by significant sorting and composition … test this alternative explanation of the lighthouse effect, associated with the endogenous sorting of workers by skill in … the formal and informal sectors. We find that sorting accounts for at least one third of the increase in average wages in …

We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination … applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive …

and the sorting of workers across firms, are important sources of changes in earnings distributions over time. Our results …

in majors with higher average verbal GRE scores are more likely to attendgraduate school. This sorting effect means that … sorting effect raises estimated annualized returns to a Master’s or doctoraldegree from about 5% to 7.3% and 12 …Students in majors with higher average quantitative GRE scores are less likely to attend graduateschool while students …

We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination … applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive …