This paper analyzes assortative matching between employers and employees and its interrelations with the employment … density of local labor markets in Germany. I devote attention to the identiication of accurate quality measures: plants' total … factor productivity and workers' fixed effect. Two different methods then yield evidence in favor of positive assortative …

This paper analyzes assortative matching between employers and employees and its interrelations with the employment … density of local labor markets in Germany. I devote attention to the identiication of accurate quality measures: plants’ total … factor productivity and workers’ fixed effect. Two different methods then yield evidence in favor of positive assortative …

agglomeration economies, and its consequences for the city-size wage gap. After 15 years of work experience in Munich the cumulative …

Germany, I find that workers in large cities are both less likely to be overqualified for their job and to work in a different … differences in qualification mismatch across areas. This provides evidence of the existence of agglomeration economies through …

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on … skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences … the role of worker-job matching in development accounting, we build an equilibrium matching model that allows for cross …

-level information on new employment relationships in Germany. Our results suggest rather small matching benefits. Doubling employment …We analyse whether the size of the local labour market allows for better matching between job seekers and vacancies …, which is thought to enhance productivity. This analysis is based on a large data set providing detailed micro …

-level information on new employment relationships in Germany. Our results suggest rather small matching benefits. Doubling employment …We analyse whether the size of the local labour market allows for better matching between job seekers and vacancies …, which is thought to enhance productivity. This analysis is based on a large data set providing detailed micro …

firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by sorting theory, we infer firm productivity from estimating firm …-level production functions, taking into account that worker ability and firm productivity may interact at the match level. Using German …, driven by new matches between low-productivity firms and low-ability workers. At the top, sorting decreases, reflected in …