Wage sorting trends

Jesper Bagger, Kenneth Sørensen and Rune Vejlin

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 118, issue 1, 63-67

Abstract: We document a strong trend towards more positive assortative wage sorting using Danish Matched Employer–Employee data from 1980 to 2006. The pattern is not due to compositional changes in the labor market and primarily occurs among high wage workers.

Keywords: Matched employer–employee data; Firm fixed effects; Worker fixed effects; Wage sorting; Wage inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J30 J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.09.021

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