Within- and cross-firm mobility and earnings growth

Arbeitspapier

While it is well established that both promotions within firms and mobility across firms lead to significant earnings progression, little is known about the interaction between these types of mobility. Exploiting a large Danish panel data set and controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity, we show that cross-firm moves at the non-executive level provide sizeable short-run gains (similar to the effect of a promotion), consistent with the existing literature. These gains, however, appear modest when compared with the persistent impact on earnings growth of promotions (either within or across firms) and subsequent mobility at a higher hierarchy level.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5163

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Personnel Economics: Firm Employment Decisions; Promotions
• Subject: earnings growth ; promotions ; dynamic panel data models ; matched employer-employee data ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Einkommen ; Schätzung ; Dänemark

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Frederiksen, Anders ; Halliday, Timothy ; Koch, Alexander K.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/46111
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET