Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55105 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6016
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper we use a novel approach and a large Portuguese employer-employee panel data set to study the hypothesis that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent developments in the estimation and analysis of models with high-dimensional fixed effects. Using wage regressions with controls for multiple sources of observed and unobserved heterogeneity we find little evidence that the quality of matching increases with firm's clustering within the same industry. This result supports Freedman's (2008) analysis using U.S. data.
Subjects: 
agglomeration
matching
fixed-effects
JEL: 
R12
R39
J31
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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