High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

M. J. Andrews; L. Gill; T. Schank; R. Upward

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.07.033

High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

M. J. Andrews, L. Gill, T. Schank, R. Upward

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Abstract

Limited Mobility Bias explains why positive assortative matching is not observed in the empirical literature. Using German social security records, we estimate the correlation between worker and firm contributions to wage equations and find that it is unambiguously positive. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	824-827
Number of pages	3
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	117
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.07.033
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Employer-employee panels
Limited mobility bias
Positive assortative matching

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High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

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