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Wooden stones, on which symbols for male and female persons in business attire are depicted, lie on a gray-blue surface. Arrows go back and forth between the stones, symbolizing the movement of each person.

Job Mobility and Assortative Matching

This paper examines the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility.

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker and firm quality.

IAB-Discussion Paper 11/2024: Job Mobility and Assortative Matching