Wage sorting trends

Economics Letters

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 63-67

  Bagger, Jesper ^a   Sørensen, Kenneth L ^b,c   Vejlin, Rune ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c KORA Danish Institute for Local and Regional Government Research   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Firm fixed effects; Matched employer employee data; Wage inequality; Wage sorting; Worker fixed effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867234961     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.09.021     Document Type: Article

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