Job Mismatch and Early Career Success

Summary

We thank Letian Yin for valuable research assistance and Jeff Campbell, Alexander Chesney, and David Lee for extensive comments. We also thank seminar participants for valuable feedback at ANU, Chicago Fed, Chilean Economic Society, e61 Institute, NYU, Princeton, Texas A&M, Tinbergen Institute, UCI, UCSD, and UNSW. This project did not receive any funding and none of the authors have any material or relevant financial conflicts. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.