TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Abowd, John M.
AU  - Kramarz, Francis
AU  - Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien
AU  - Schmutte, Ian M.
        TI  - Sorting Between and Within Industries: A Testable Model of Assortative Matching
        PY  - 2014/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8439
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8439
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - industries
KW  - sorting
        ER  -