Reference wages and turnover intentions: evidence from linked employer-employee data
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This research note analyzes the nexus between workers’ turnover intentions and workers’ own wages, internal and external reference wages. Worker and establishment surveys are linked with administrative social security data for all workers in surveyed establishments. Approximately half a million worker-year observations are used to predict conditional internal and external reference wages. Results show that higher external and internal reference wages are correlated with higher turnover intentions. Thus, external reference wages seem to serve as outside options and higher reference wages of co-workers seem rather to reduce own social status than to signal better future prospects at the current employer.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Applied Economics Letters |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue number | 14 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1955-1959 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISSN | 1350-4851 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:
This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. We thank participants of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association in San Diego, the Workshop in “Assessing the Impact of Human Resource Management Practices” 2017 in Nurnberg, the Workshop in Management Research 2017 in Wuppertal, department seminar at LUISS university Rome, as well as Andrew Clark, Stefan Schneck, Susanne Steffes, Gesine Stephan, and Knut Gerlach for their comments.
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- Income comparison, linked employer-employee data, signal, status, turnover
- Economics