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Low-wage careers: Are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?
Using representative linked employer-employee data of the German Federal Employment Agency, this paper shows that just one out of seven full-time employees who earned low wages (i.e., less than two-thirds of the median wage) in 1998/99 was able to earn wages above the low-wage threshold in 2003. Bivariate probit estimations with endogenous selection indicate that upward wage mobility is higher for younger and better qualified low-wage earners, whereas women are substantially less successful. We show that the characteristics of the employing firm also matter for low-wage earners' probability of escaping low-paid work. In particular, small plants and plants with a high share of low-wage earners often seem to be dead ends for low-wage earners. The likelihood of leaving the low-wage sector is also low when staying in unskilled and skilled service occupations and in unskilled commercial and administrative occupations. Consequently, leaving these dead-end plants and occupations appears to be an important instrument for achieving wages above the low-wage threshold.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Journal: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research ; ISSN: 2510-5027 ; Volume: 43 ; Year: 2011 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 231-249 ; Heidelberg: Springer
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
- Thema
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IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz
Niedriglohn
berufliche Mobilität
Arbeitskräftemobilität
beruflicher Aufstieg
berufliche Qualifikation
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
Frauen
Kleinbetrieb
Geringverdiener
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Mosthaf, Alexander
Schnabel, Claus
Stephani, Jens
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Springer
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Heidelberg
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2011
- DOI
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doi:10.1007/s12651-010-0036-4
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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- Artikel
Beteiligte
- Mosthaf, Alexander
- Schnabel, Claus
- Stephani, Jens
- Springer
Entstanden
- 2011
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