Matching Bias in Labor Demand Estimation

Giovanna Aguilar Andía () and Silvio Rendon ()

No 3076, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Abstract: Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we show both theoretically and empirically that positive assortative matching between firms and workers leads to an underestimation of the absolute value of wage elasticity of labor demand.

Keywords: labor demand estimation; employment; matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2007-09
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Published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 297-299

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