Labor market models of worker and firm heterogeneity

Annual Review of Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 577-602

  Lentz, Rasmus ^a   Mortensen, Dale T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assortative matching; Productivity differentials; Reallocation; Size distribution of firms; Wage dispersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952596440     PISSN: 19411383     EISSN: 19411391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.economics.102308.124511     Document Type: Article

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