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Job Employment Intensity, Matching, and Earnings 1999–2005

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  • Hyslop, Dean
  • Mare, David

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In this paper, we exploit the worker-firm “link” information in the Linked Employer-Employee Database (LEED) to describe the patterns of employment intensity in jobs, matching between workers and firms, and the effect on job-level employment and earnings. First, we characterise workers’ annual employment experiences by their full-time (within month) and full-year (across months) dimensions, and firms’ mix of full-time and full-year jobs, and describe the extent of matching along these dimensions. We identify substantial cross-sectional variation in average employment intensity separately for workers and for firms, and some evidence that high-intensity workers are disproportionately employed in high-intensity firms. We then examine the relationship between jobs’ employment intensity and their earnings rates. Although there is a strong positive correlation between employment intensity and earnings that is largely associated with the full-time dimension, after controlling for other worker and firm factors, we find that there is only a modest direct impact of intensity on earnings. We conclude that the earnings premium associated with the full-time employment intensity is relatively small, and there is a premium for part-year work. The full-time employment intensity premium consists of both a continuous gradient across part-time levels and a discrete premium associated with full-time work.

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  • Hyslop, Dean & Mare, David, 2007. "Job Employment Intensity, Matching, and Earnings 1999–2005," Motu Working Papers 292848, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:motuwp:292848
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.292848
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