Low-wage mobility during the early career

The Immediate Returns to Early Career Mobility

Job mobility and wage mobility at the beginning of the working career

This piece of work is aimed at studying the rewards to job mobility and whether it is a proper tool to experience wage growth and escaping situations of low-paid jobs. The data-base used will be the European Community Household Panel Survey, from which a sample of young people (under 30 in 1994) from thirteen different countries has been drawn. The selected technique will be a fixed-effects mod...

Individual Wage Mobility Individual Wage Mobility

This paper identifies some of the determinants of individual mobility in the wage distribution over time. The proposed model takes attrition as well as the decile of origin into account unlike all other used models to describe the wage mobility. A simpel probit analysis is compared with the more sofisticated method used in this paper. Even though the wage distribution in Denmark has been nearly...

Assessing the Impact of Employer Characteristics on Low-wage Mobility

This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection into low-wage employment and non-random employer drop-out. Using data from the LIAB Linked Employer–Emp...

Job mobility and wage mobility at the beginning of the working career: young European workers escaping from badly-paid jobs

This piece of work is aimed at studying the rewards to job mobility and whether it is a proper tool to experience wage growth and escaping situations of low-paid jobs. The data-base used will be the European Community Household Panel Survey, from which a sample of young people (under 30 in 1994) from thirteen different countries has been drawn. The selected technique will be a fixed-effects mod...