%0 Report
        %A Abowd, John M.
%A Kramarz, Francis
%A Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien
%A Schmutte, Ian M.
        %T Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Aug
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8439
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8439
        %X We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage heterogeneity across sectors. Our empirical method is general and can be applied to a broad class of assignment models. The results indicate that industries are the loci of sorting-more productive workers are employed in more productive industries. The evidence confirms assortative matching can be present even when worker and employer components of wage heterogeneity are weakly correlated.
        %K industries
%K sorting