Job mobility and wage mobility at the beginning of the working career: a comparative view across Europe
Year: 2005
Type: report
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This piece of work is aimed at studying the rewards to job mobility and whether it is a proper tool to experience wage growth and escaping situations of low-paid jobs.The data-base used will be the European Community Household Panel Survey, from which a sample of young people (under 30 in 1994) from thirteen different countries has been drawn.The selected technique will be a fixed-effects model where job mobility endogenous nature is taken into account and where the marginal wage increase for movers is approached.Results show that, on average, young workers who move across employers (being initially worse paid than the stable ones) achieve a positive increase in their wages vis-à-vis those who remain with the same employer.However, this advantage in the wage dynamics is positive but at a decreasing rate, with too much mobility resulting in lower outcomes.Although a causal relation between job mobility is found, including control for endogeneity often wipes the explanatory power of mobility away, particularly when accumulated mobility is looked at.
Source: Econstor (Econstor)
Author: María Ángeles Davia Rodríguez
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1542502959