Sorting in the Labor Market

By Alan B. Krueger, D. Schkade. The Journal of human resources, 2008

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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 revealed by their behavior when they are not working, tend to be employed in jobs that involve more social interactions. We also find that workers report substantially higher levels of job satisfaction and net affect while at work if their jobs entail frequent interactions with coworkers and other desirable working conditions.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• Noncognitive Skills, Occupational Attainment, and Relative Wages (2009, background): “Similarly, Krueger and Schkade (2008) find that gregarious individuals tend to gravitate to the kinds of jobs that involve more social interactions.”
• Social Preferences and Strategic Uncertainty: An Experiment on Markets and Contracts (2010, background): “Krueger and Schkade (2007) report a positive and statistically signi…cant relationship between a worker’s tendency to interact with others while not working and the relative frequency of work-related interactions on the worker’s job.”
• Nonfamily Managers, Family Firms, and the Winner's Curse: The Influence of Noneconomic Goals and Bounded Rationality (2014, background): “Thus, the winner’s curse arises whenever the victors find that by winning they actually lose (i.e., the costs exceed the benefits).”
• The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits (2008, unknown): “Krueger and Schkade (2008) provide similar evidence for gregarious workers in the United States.”
• The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, background): “8Krueger and Schkade (2008) show that gregarious workers sort into jobs that involve more social interaction.”
• More than just test scores (2012, background): “As mentioned above, Almlund et al. (2011), Borghans et al. (2008) and Kyllonen et al. (2008) have developed rich literature reviews of noncognitive skills, and their measurement, and linked these to specific school interventions that might raise non-cognitive performance in key areas.”
• Tobit or not Tobit? (2012, unknown): “…papers do not indicate whether they are reporting coefficients or marginal effects but, based on the magnitude of the reported effects, it appears that coefficients were reported (Yeung et al. [34], Sayer et al. [29], Krueger and Schkade [26], Winkler and Ireland [33], and Krueger and Mueller [25]).”