3 papers
econ.TH2026
Sorting along Business Cycles
PaweÅ Gola, Haozhou Tang
We develop an analytically tractable model featuring heterogeneous workers and firms, where labor markets clear through a one-to-many sorting mechanism. Firms determine both the nu…
econ.TH2024
The Pond Dilemma with Heterogeneous Relative Concerns
PaweÅ Gola
This paper explores team formation when workers differ in skills and their desire to out-earn co-workers. I cast this question as a two-dimensional assignment problem with imperfec…
econ.TH2024
A Firm Link: Overall, Between- and Within-Firm Inequality Through the Lens of a Sorting Model
PaweÅ Gola, Yuejun Zhao
This paper provides a new theory of the observed co-movement between overall wage inequality and its between-firm component. We develop and solve analytically a frictionless sortin…