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Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers

This paper uses Italian panel data to analyse transition probabilities at the bottom of the earnings distribution during the 1990s. The analytical framework is characterised by the ability to account for the endogeneity of initial conditions, educational attainment and earnings attrition, providing a model that encompasses those applied by previous research. Results show that the three selection mechanisms are endogenous for the estimation of low pay transitions. The data also reveal considerable state dependence, i.e. the experience of low pay is found to raise, per se, the probability of subsequent low pay episodes. Low pay persistence and entry rates are found to be larger among female employees, the low educated, manual workers in small firms and workers from the South relative to otherwise comparable individuals.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1068

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models
Thema
low pay
earnings mobility
initial conditions
earnings attrition
education
Niedriglohn
Soziale Mobilität
Schätzung
Italien

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Cappellari, Lorenzo
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2004

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Cappellari, Lorenzo
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2004

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