Arbeitspapier
Workers, firms and life-cycle wage dynamics
Studies of individual wage dynamics typically ignore firm heterogeneity, whereas decompositions of earnings into worker and firm effects abstract from life-cycle considerations. We study firm effects in individual wage dynamics using administrative data on the population of Italian employers and employees. We propose a novel identification strategy for firm-related wage components exploiting the informative content of the wage covariance structure of coworkers. Wage inequality increases three-fold over the working life; firm effects are predominant while young, but sorting of workers into firms becomes increasingly important, explaining the largest share of lifetime inequality. Static models that do not allow for life-cycle dynamics underestimate the importance of sorting and overstate match and firm effects.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 67
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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Wage inequality
Wage dynamics
Co-workers' covariance
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bingley, Paul
Cappellari, Lorenzo
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Veröffentlichung
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DISCE)
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Milano
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2018
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:25 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bingley, Paul
- Cappellari, Lorenzo
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Dipartimento di Economia e Finanza (DISCE)
Entstanden
- 2018