Sorting in the Labor Market: Do Gregarious Workers Flock to Interactive Jobs?
This paper tests a central implication of the theory of equalizing differences, that workers sort into jobs with different attributes based on their preferences. We present evidence from four new time-use data sets for the United States and France suggesting that workers who are more gregarious, as...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Human Resources Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 859 - 884 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
Fall2008
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