High wage workers and low wage firms: Negative assortative matching or limited mobility bias?

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 171, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 673-697

  Andrews, M J ^a,d   Gill, L ^a   Schank, T ^b   Upward, R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biases; Fixed effects; Limited mobility bias; Linked employer employee panel data

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949129082     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00533.x     Document Type: Article

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