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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

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Rute Mendes () (Collegio Carlo Alberto and Free University Amsterdam)
Gerard J. van den Berg () (Free University Amsterdam, IFAU-Uppsala, Netspar, CEPR, INSEE-CREST, IFS and IZA)
Maarten Lindeboom () (Free University Amsterdam, Tinbergen Institute, HEB-Bergen and IZA)

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In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we relate this to the skill distribution of workers in the firm. We find that there is positive assortative matching, in particular among long-lived firms. Using skill-specific estimates of an index of search frictions, we find that the results can only to a small extent be explained by heterogeneity of search frictions across worker skill groups.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 3053.

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Keywords: positive assortative matching; matched employer-employee data; productivity; skill; unobserved heterogeneity; sorting; fixed effects;

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J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Capital and Total Factor Productivity; Capacity
J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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