Should low-wage workers care about where they work? Assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility

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This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate Probit model that accounts for selection into low-wage employment and non-random employer drop-out. Using data from the LIAB Linked Employer-Employee panel, our results indicate that for male workers from the service sector the probability of escaping low-pay increases with employer size. This contrasts with female workers from the service sector, who rather benefit from collective bargaining coverage and local works councils. These findings are consistent with internal labour markets being an important ingredient of male within-firm wage growth, whereas the removal of asymmetric information appears to be more relevant in explaining female workers' wage transitions.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 10-054

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Panel Data Models; Spatio-temporal Models ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Trade Unions: Objectives, Structure, and Effects ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
• Thema: wage mobility ; trivariate probit ; linked employer-employee data ; Niedriglohn ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Geschlecht ; Interner Arbeitsmarkt ; Betriebsrat ; Betriebsgröße ; Schätzung ; Deutschland

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Guertzgen, Nicole ; Heinze, Anja
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2010

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/40158
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ