Publications and Accepted Papers
“Supply and Demand in a Two-Sector Matching Model” [PDF, Online Appendix, Julia code]
Journal of Political Economy, 2021, vol. 129, no.3, pp. 940-978, (doi.org/10.1086/712507)
Summary: I combine Roy’s selection and Becker’s assignment model and study the distributional consequences of technological change.
“On the Importance of Social Status for Occupational Sorting” [PDF]
The Economic Journal, vol. 134, issue 661, July 2024, pp. 2009–2040 (doi.org/10.1093/ej/uead119)
Summary: I study how social status concerns affect occupational sorting. It turns out that if workers care only about occupational prestige (how their occupation ranks among other occupations) or only about local status (how the worker ranks within her occupation), then the impact is limited. However, as these two components of status act as complements, if workers care about both of them, then the impact can be arbitrarily strong.
Working Papers
“The Pond Dilemma with Heterogeneous Relative Concerns” [PDF]
Summary: I study team formation in a setting in which workers differ not only in skill but also their desire to out-earn their co-workers and derive how the presence of heterogenous relative concerns impacts overall production, wage and welfare inequality, as well as firms’ domestic outsourcing decisions.
“A Firm Link: Overall, Between- and Within-Firm Inequality Through the Lens of a Sorting Model” (with Yuejun Zhao) [PDF] [ArXiv]
Revision requested by the Review of Economic Studies
Summary: We develop a novel, extremely tractable sorting model with large, hierarchical firms and use it to study the determinants of overall, between -and within-firm inequality in Norway.
“Mexican Immigration to the US: Selection, Assignment and Welfare” (with Michał Burzyński) [PDF, Online Appendix]
Summary: We analyze how migration policy reforms shape migrants’ self-selection and, through that, affect welfare and wage inequality in the sending and destination countries.
Dormant Papers
“Occupational Sorting and the Structure of Status” [PDF]
Summary: Again, I study how social status concerns affect occupational sorting. In this paper, the supply of jobs in each occupation is fixed, and I show that the more important is local status in an occupation, the better quality workers it attracts.