Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 2022-09-01
Number: 22-057/V
Author-Name: Thomas Peeters
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Author-Name: Jan C. van Ours
Author-Workplace-Name: Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: International Assortative Matching in the European Labor Market
Abstract: We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and
define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output into
revenues. We rank workers and firms according to their individual productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree
of assortative matching within and across countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more
so at the international level. This suggests national borders do not prevent
workers and firm from pursuing profitable complementarities in production.

Classification-JEL: M51, J63, J24, Z22

Keywords: Assortative matching, international worker mobility, football
managers
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