Job Mobility and Wage Mobility of High- and Low-paid Workers

Δημήτρης Παυλόπουλος (), Didier Fouarge (), Ruud Muffels () and Jeroen K. Vermunt

Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science Studies / Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2007, vol. 127, issue 1, pages 47-58

Abstract: Studies have shown that voluntary job-to-job changes have a positive effect on wage growth. This paper argues that the impact of a job change on wage mobility depends on the position in the wage distribution. Using panel data from the UK and Germany, we show that a change of employer results into a wage increase only for the low paid workers. Within-firm job changes produce, on the average, moderate wage gains for the low-paid workers in Britain, but have no effect in Germany.

JEL-codes: J31 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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