We investigate the heterogeneity of assortative labor matching with respect to geography, skills, and tasks. Our contribution is separate plant quality by education level occupation tasks using AKM-model. introduce a geology-related instrument analyze city effect address limited mobility bias. Using rich administrative worker-plant dataset for Norway, we show that college educated have strong e...

We examine the hypothesis that flexible work organization involves greater skill requirements and, hence, an increased likelihood of receiving employer provided training. The analysis is based on unique linked employer-employee data from Germany for years 2012, 2014 and 2016 (12,924 pooled observations 9,440 employees in 1,903 establishments). Our results confirm are more likely to receive trai...

Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States: Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals’ Costs (Even Lowering One’s Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work,...

Today, skills laboratories or "skills labs", i.e. specific practical skill training facilities, are a firmly established part of medical education offering the possibility of training clinical procedures in a safe and fault-forging environment prior to real life application at bedside or in the operating room. Skills lab training follows a structured teaching concept, takes place under supervis...

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In this study we investigate some aspects of top management pay in China’s listed firms. While China has embraced many capitalist practices it still retains some vestiges of socialism and this has an impact on the way business executives are rewarded. In particular, the Chinese government wants to maintain social harmony and it believes that differences in pay between managers and workers shoul...

This paper studies the statistical errors for the fingerprint-based RADAR neighbor matching localization with the linearly calibrated reference points (RPs) in logarithmic received signal strength (RSS) varying Wi-Fi environment. To the best of our knowledge, little comprehensive analysis work has appeared on the error performance of neighbor matching localization with respect to the deployment...