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Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics

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  • Hospido, Laura

    () (Bank of Spain)

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This paper develops an error components model that is used to examine the impact of job changes on the dynamics and variance of individual log earnings. I use data on work histories drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) that makes it possible to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary job-to-job changes. The potential endogeneity of job mobility in relation to earnings is circumvented by means of an instrument variable estimation method that also allows to control for unobserved individual-job specific heterogeneity. Once controlled for individual and job-specific effects, the persistence within jobs is almost zero, whereas across jobs is significant but small.

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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 5088.

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Length: 25 pages
Date of creation: Jul 2010
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Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp5088

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Keywords: panel data; dynamic models; individual-job specific fixed effects; job changes; individual wages;

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