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

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Journal: Economics Letters
Year: 2012
Volume: 117
Issue: 3
Pages: 824-827

Authors (4)

Score contribution per author:

0.251 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

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.

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repec:eee:ecolet:v:117:y:2012:i:3:p:824-827
Journal Field
General
Author Count
4
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2026-01-29