High wage workers match with high wage firms: Clear evidence of the effects of limited mobility bias

M.J. Andrews, L. Gill, Thorsten Schank and Richard Upward

Economics Letters, 2012, vol. 117, issue 3, 824-827

Abstract: Limited Mobility Bias explains why positive assortative matching is not observed in the empirical literature. Using German social security records, we estimate the correlation between worker and firm contributions to wage equations and find that it is unambiguously positive.

Keywords: Employer–employee panels; Limited mobility bias; Positive assortative matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 J20 J30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.07.033

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