High Wage Workers Match with High Wage Firms: Clear Evidence of the Effects of Limited Mobility Bias
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- Andrews, M.J. & Gill, L. & Schank, T. & Upward, R., 2012. "High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 117(3), pages 824-827.
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Keywords
fixed effects; linked employer-employee panel data; limited mobility bias;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2012-07-01 (Business Economics)
- NEP-EFF-2012-07-01 (Efficiency & Productivity)
- NEP-LAB-2012-07-01 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2012-07-01 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, & Wages)
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