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Wage distributions and wage dynamics in Europe and the US : lessons from a simple job search model

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Job search models of the labor market establish a very tight correspondance between the determinants of labor turnover and individual wage dynamics on one hand, and the determinants of wage dispersion on the other. This paper offers a systematic examination of wether this correspondance is present in the data by estimating a rudimentary partial equilibrium job search model on the ECHP database, from which we extract a 1996-1999 panel of individual worker data from 12 different European countries. We find that our basic job search model fits the data surprisingly well. This also allows us to point a number of interesting emprirical regularities about wage distributions. Finally, our results suggest that cross-sectional data on individual wages contain the basic information needed to obtain reliable estimates of the "search frictions" parameters of a canonical job search model.

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  • Grégory Jolivet & Fabien Postel-Vinay & Jean-Marc Robin, 2003. "Wage distributions and wage dynamics in Europe and the US : lessons from a simple job search model," Research Unit Working Papers 0302, Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquee, INRA.
    • Handle: RePEc:lea:leawpi:0302
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    1. Wasmer, Etienne, 2002. "Interpreting Europe and US labor markets differences: the specificity of human capital investments," Arbetsrapport 2003:9, Institute for Futures Studies.
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    3. Drago, Francesco, 2006. "Career Consequences of Hyperbolic Time Preferences," IZA Discussion Papers 2113, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

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    Keywords

    Labor market frictions; wage distribution; wage dynamics; job mobility;
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    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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