A Formal Test of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

John M. Abowd, Francis Kramarz, Sébastien Pérez-Duarte, Ian Schmutte

NBER Working Paper No. 15546
Issued in November 2009

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Any opinions and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Census Bureau. All results have been reviewed to ensure that no confidential information is disclosed. This research uses data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics Program, which was partially supported by the following National Science Foundation Grants SES-9978093, SES-0339191 and ITR-0427889; National Institute on Aging Grant AG018854; and grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Abowd also acknowledges direct support from NSF Grants SES-0339191, CNS-0627680, and SES-0922005. The data used in this paper were derived from confidential data

produced by the LEHD Program at the U.S. Census Bureau. All estimation was performed on public-use versions of these data available directly from the authors. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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