We propose a simple test that uses information on workers' mobility, wages and firms' profits to identify the sign and … 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 …

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 …

We show that occupation mobility creates the illusion of cyclical hiring wages. Using administrative data, we find that … wages of new hires who remain in the same occupation are no more cyclical than those of existing workers, whereas wages of … results suggest that the widely documented cyclicality of entry wages reflects composition effects due to changes in match …