Wage Sorting Trends

Jesper Bagger; Kenneth Sorensen; Rune Vejlin

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.09.021

Wage Sorting Trends

Jesper Bagger, Kenneth Sorensen, Rune Vejlin

School of Economics

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We document a strong trend towards more positive assortative wage sorting using Danish Matched Employer–Employee data from 1980 to 2006. The pattern is not due to compositional changes in the labor market and primarily occurs among high wage workers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	63-67
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	118
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.09.021
Publication status	Published - Jan 2013

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