Firm-worker matching in industrial clusters

Arbeitspapier

In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimation and analysis of models with high-dimensional fixed effects. Using wage regressions with controls for multiple sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity we find little evidence that the quality of matching increases with firm's clustering within the same industry. This result supports Freedman's (2008) analysis using U.S. data.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6016

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: Other ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Thema: agglomeration ; matching ; fixed-effects ; Regionale Konzentration ; Branche ; Arbeitsnachfrage ; Arbeitsangebot ; Matching ; Schätzung ; Portugal

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Figueiredo, Octávio ; Guimaraes, Paulo ; Woodward, Douglas
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/55105
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201110263548
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:22 MESZ