strength of assortative matching. The basic intuition underlying our empirical strategy is that, in the presence of positive … (negative) assortative matching, good workers are more (less) likely to move to better firms than bad workers. Assuming that … matching is pervasive in the labor market. This result is in contrast with what we find from correlating the worker and firm …

provides a valid approximation of observed wages and matching patterns for a large part of the data. For low-type workers …

Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative matching of workers in ICT (information and communication … intensity do not exhibit these sorting patterns. A labour market matching model explains the increased assortative matching in …

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker … between the estimates of worker and firm quality. Both measures indicate that the degree of assortative matching, on average …

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker … the degree of assortative matching, on average, increases with each job move. For high-quality workers, this can be …