Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/265742 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15521
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market. We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and define firm productivity as the capacity to transform physical output into revenues. We rank workers and firms according to their individual productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across countries. We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the international level. This suggests national borders do not prevent workers and firm from pursuing profitable complementarities in production.
Subjects: 
assortative matching
international worker mobility
football managers
JEL: 
M51
J63
J24
Z22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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