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 -