Reinterpreting Industry Premiums: Match‐Specific Productivity
构建了一个工人分类与匹配特定生产率的简单模型，解释行业间工资差异。高技能工人进入匹配更好的行业，这些行业平均工资更高。利用失业工人调查数据，实证结果支持模型预测。
This article builds a simple model of worker sorting and match-specific productivity to explain interindustry wage differentials. High-skilled workers sort themselves into the industries offering more jobs that are better matched to them and those industries pay higher wages (on average). In job transition following an exogenous job separation, the likelihood of industry switching is higher among marginal workers--low- (high-)skilled workers in high- (low-)wage industry. Empirical findings from a sample of exogenous job separations created from the Displaced Worker Surveys are generally consistent with the implications of the model. Copyright 1998 by University of Chicago Press.