 Follow the money ? Workers’ mobility, wages and amenitiesD. Babet and
M. Chabaud
Documents de Travail de l'Insee - INSEE Working Papers from Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques Abstract: We use a chained version of the French matched employer-employee dataset (BTS-postes) to analyze the wage dynamics of people who change employers during the 2005-2019 period. First, we show that almost half of the moves that we interpret as being chosen are accompanied by a decrease in the hourly wage. To understand why workers might voluntarily quit a job for another one that pays less, we follow Sorkin (2018) to measure non-wage amenities offered by firms using the structure of employer-to-employer transitions. We find that in the French context, non-pay characteristics of jobs play a similar role than in the US, explaining about 10% of the variance of (log)-wages. By comparing estimates based on annualized and hourly wages, we see indications that workers value more firms in which they can work longer hours. Keywords: Firm-to-firm mobility; wage gap; non-wage amenities (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nse:doctra:2024-19 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Documents de Travail de l'Insee - INSEE Working Papers from Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques Contact information at EDIRC. |
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