Rikke Ibsen (CCP (Center for Corporate Performance), Aarhus Business School) Elisabetta Trevisan (CCP (Center for Corporate Performance), Aarhus Business Schoo and V Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Niels Westergaard-Nielsen (CCP (Center for Corporate Performance), Aarhus Business School)
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This paper investigates the effect of job mobility and tenure on wage dynamics. In this respect, theory assesses that high job mobility and low tenure are associated to lower wage drop when workers experience a job change. We test this theory first comparing two labour market (i.e. Denmark and a large Italian region, Veneto) characterized by different job mobility and tenure, as a consequence of different level of EPL. Secondly, we perform a within Veneto analysis, comparing the different effects when workers are employed in small rather than big firms. Data drawn from the VWH (Veneto Workers History) and IDA (for Denmark) registered data, from 1987 to 2001, are used. In Denmark job mobility has a positive effect on wage increases, while built up on firm-specific human capital has a negative effect. In Veneto, instead, it appears that long tenure are more rewarding. Some evidences of positive impact of moving from job to job when the barriers are lower come from the analysis of the differences between small and big firms in Veneto.
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Paper provided by University of Venice "Ca' Foscari", Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number
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