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3 years ago

Positive assortative matching always prevails in harvest worker-crop relationships.

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A comment on "salaries or piece rates: on the endogenous matching of harvest workers and crops"
Silvia Martinez-Gorricho, Miguel Sanchez Villalba

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The study found that contrary to previous research, good workers tend to match with good employers and bad workers with bad employers in the labor market. This is because of the riskiness of the projects and the abilities of the workers.

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