Low-wage careers: Are there dead-end firms and dead-end jobs?

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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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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research ; ISSN: 2510-5027 ; Volume: 43 ; Year: 2011 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 231-249 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General ; Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
• Thema: IAB-Linked-Employer-Employee-Datensatz ; Niedriglohn ; berufliche Mobilität ; Arbeitskräftemobilität ; beruflicher Aufstieg ; berufliche Qualifikation ; geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren ; Frauen ; Kleinbetrieb ; Geringverdiener

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Mosthaf, Alexander ; Schnabel, Claus ; Stephani, Jens
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1007/s12651-010-0036-4
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/158728
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ