No Line Left Behind
Assortative Matching Inside the Firm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19313718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Achyuta Adhvaryu (University of California at San Diego [email protected]), Vittorio Bassi (University of Southern California [email protected]), Anant Nyshadham (0000-0001-9165-5528, University of Michigan [email protected]), Jorge Tamayo (0000-0002-8410-264X, Harvard Business School [email protected]) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Pages | 1-45 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_01516 |
| OpenAlex | W3151633646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
We leverage the high degree of worker mobility across production lines in a large Indian manufacturer to estimate the sorting of workers to managers, using data on daily worker productivity. We find negative assortative matching (NAM): better workers tend to be matched with worse managers. Estimates of the production technology, however, reveal that productivity would increase by up to 4% under positive sorting. Exploiting a survey of managers and data on orders from multinational brands, we document that NAM arises, at least partly, because maintaining valuable relationships with buyers provides strong incentives to avoid delays on any given production line
Economics · Geometry · Line (geometry) · Matching (statistics) · Statistics · Corporate Finance and Governance · Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |