High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms
Author | : Katarína Borovičková |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2017 |
ISBN-10 | : OCLC:1014183538 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Download or read book High Wage Workers Work for High Wage Firms written by Katarína Borovičková and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We develop a new approach to measuring the correlation between the types of matched workers and firms. Our approach accurately measures the correlation in data sets with many workers and firms, but a small number of independent observations for each. Using administrative data from Austria, we find that the correlation between worker and firm types lies between 0.4 and 0.6. We use artificial data sets with correlated worker and firm types to show that our estimator is accurate. In contrast, the Abowd, Kramarz and Margolis (1999) fixed effects estimator suggests no correlation between types in our data set. We show both theoretically and empirically that this reflects an incidental parameter problem.