Relative wage positions and quit behavior: new evidence from linked employer-employee data
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Lüneburg: Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg, 2010. (Working paper series in Economics; Nr. 163).
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TY - UNPB
T1 - Relative wage positions and quit behavior
T2 - new evidence from linked employer-employee data
AU - Pfeifer, Christian
AU - Schneck, Stefan
N1 - Literaturverz. S. 26 - 30
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average more likely to quit their jobs than workers with lower relative wage positions; and (2) workers, who experience a loss in their relative wage positions, are also more likely to have a wage cut associated with their job-to-job transition. The overall results therefore suggest that the status effect is dominated by an opposing signal effect.
AB - We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average more likely to quit their jobs than workers with lower relative wage positions; and (2) workers, who experience a loss in their relative wage positions, are also more likely to have a wage cut associated with their job-to-job transition. The overall results therefore suggest that the status effect is dominated by an opposing signal effect.
KW - Economics
M3 - Working papers
T3 - Working paper series in Economics
BT - Relative wage positions and quit behavior
PB - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre der Universität Lüneburg
CY - Lüneburg
ER -