Sorting On-line and On-time

Banfi, Stefano and Choi, Sekyu and Villena-Roldán, Benjamin (2019): Sorting On-line and On-time. Published in: European Economic Review , Vol. 146, (July 2022): p. 104128.

Abstract

Using proprietary data from a Chilean online job board, we compute sorting between workers and job positions during the application stage (ex ante) and predict sorting in the flow and stock of created matches (ex post) for different type measures. We find strong evidence for positive and procyclical correlations between workers and job types. Since ex ante and ex post sorting are very similar, we conclude that sorting is largely generated at the application stage. This suggests that theoretical models of sorting with directed search are a promising path for future research.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Online search; Assortative matching; Labor markets; Applications
• Subjects: E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity; E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles > E32 - Business Fluctuations ; Cycles; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J24 - Human Capital ; Skills ; Occupational Choice ; Labor Productivity; J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J6 - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers > J60 - General

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