Speaker: Dr Thomas Peeters (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Hosted by: University of Liverpool Management School's Centre for Sports Business
Open to: University of Liverpool academic staff and PhD students only, with no sign up needed
Date: Thursday 21 March 2024
Time: 2-3pm
Place: Management School - Marketing Suite (ground floor)
Abstract
We investigate whether national borders within Europe hinder the assortative matching of workers to firms in a high skilled labor market.
We characterize worker productivity as the ability to contribute to physical output and determine productivity as the capacity to transform physical output into revenues.
We rank workers and firms according to their individual productivity estimates and study the ensuing rank correlation to gauge the degree of assortative matching within and across countries.
We find strong evidence for positive assortative matching at the national level, and even more so at the international level.
This suggests national borders do not prevent workers and firms from pursuing profitable complementarities in production.
Co-authored by Dr Thomas Peeters and Professor Jan van Ours.
Keywords
Assortative matching, international worker mobility, football managers
Speaker
Thomas Peeters is an associate professor at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE) where he serves as the director of the Department of Applied Economics. He also coordinates the activities of the Erasmus Center for Applied Sports Economics (ECASE).
Thomas is a research fellow of the Tinbergen Institute Opens externaland a member of the Erasmus Research Institute in Management (ERIM)Opens external. His teaching focuses on sports economics, firm strategy and industrial organization.
Before joining Erasmus, he obtained a PhD in applied economics at the University of Antwerp. He has worked as a PhD-fellow at the Flanders Research FoundationOpens external and visiting research fellow at the University of MichiganOpens external.
Thomas studies questions on the intersection of strategy economics, innovation, industrial organization and sports economics.
His work has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Economic Policy, Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Labour Economics, Global Strategy Journal and the International Journal of Forecasting.
He won the 2022 ERIM Top Article AwardOpens external for his work on the inventor labor market.
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