3 papers
econ.GN2025
Multidimensional Sorting: Comparative Statics
Job Boerma, Andrea Ottolini, Aleh Tsyvinski
Characterizing multidimensional sorting problems is notoriously difficult - solutions are known only for a small number of examples. Our main results completely characterize the co…
econ.GN2025
Composite Sorting
Job Boerma, Aleh Tsyvinski, Ruodu Wang +1
This paper introduces an assignment model with concave costs of skill gaps, which arise generally when firms mitigate costs of mismatch as in Stigler (1939) and Laffont and Tirole…
econ.GN2025
Bunching and Taxing Multidimensional Skills
Job Boerma, Aleh Tsyvinski, Alexander P. Zimin
We characterize optimal policy in a multidimensional nonlinear taxation model with bunching. We develop an empirically relevant model with cognitive and manual skills, firm heterog…