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Job Tenure in Britain: Employee Characteristics Versus Workplace Effects

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Mumford, Karen () (University of York and IZA Bonn)
Smith, Peter N. (University of York)

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We consider differences in current job tenure of individuals using linked employee and workplace data. This enables us to distinguish between variation in tenure associated with the characteristics of individual employees and those of the workplace in which they work. The various individual characteristics are, as a group, found to be essentially uncorrelated with the workplace effect, however, this is not true for women and non-white employees. We find that the lower tenure associated with membership of these demographic groups is predominantly captured by workplace effects suggesting some degree of labour market segmentation in Britain.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 1085.

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Keywords: job tenure individual fixed-effects voice segmentation

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  1. Filipe Almeida-Santos & Karen Mumford, 2006. "Employee Training, Wage Dispersion and Equality in Britain," IZA Discussion Papers 2276, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  2. Boockmann, Bernhard & Steffes, Susanne, 2007. "Seniority and Job Stability: A Quantile Regression Approach Using Matched Employer-Employee Data," ZEW Discussion Papers 07-014, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  3. Filipe Almeida-Santos & Karen Mumford, . "Employee Training and Wage Compression in Britain," Discussion Papers 04/11, Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Karen Mumford & Peter N Smith, . "The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain," Discussion Papers 04/05, Department of Economics, University of York. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Boockmann, Bernhard & Steffes, Susanne, 2005. "Individual and Plant-level Determinants of Job Durations in Germany," ZEW Discussion Papers 05-89, ZEW - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung / Center for European Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
  6. Thomas Cornelißen & Olaf Hübler, 2007. "Unobserved Individual and Firm Heterogeneity in Wage and Tenure Functions: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data," IZA Discussion Papers 2741, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  7. Anne Daly & Akira Kawaguchi & Xin Meng & Karen Mumford, 2006. "The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 1921, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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