TY - JOUR

T1 - An empirical note on wages in an internal labour market

AU - Pfeifer, Christian

N1 - Funding Information: I would like to thank Knut Gerlach, the seminar participants at the University of Zurich, and an anonymous referee for helpful comments. Financial support from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.

PY - 2008/6/1

Y1 - 2008/6/1

N2 - Earnings functions are estimated using personnel data of a German company. Results support a positive correlation between human capital, hierarchical levels, promotions, and wages. Moreover, promoted and newly hired employees start at the bottom of a level's wage distribution.

AB - Earnings functions are estimated using personnel data of a German company. Results support a positive correlation between human capital, hierarchical levels, promotions, and wages. Moreover, promoted and newly hired employees start at the bottom of a level's wage distribution.

KW - Economics

KW - Internal labour markets

KW - New entrants

KW - Wages

KW - Gender and Diversity

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U2 - 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.10.003

DO - 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.10.003

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 99

SP - 570

EP - 573

JO - Economics Letters

JF - Economics Letters

SN - 0165-1765

IS - 3

ER -