Job mobility in Portugal: a Bayesian study with matched worker-firm data

Guillaume Horny (), Rute Mendes and Gerard J. van den Berg

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, ULP, Strasbourg

Abstract: We study job mobility using a multivariate hazard model in discrete time. It involves two correlated random effects, one at the firm level and another at the worker level. Bayesian estimates are based on a Portuguese matched employer-employee dataset. Our results confirm the importance of unobserved heterogeneity at the individual level and at the firm level. Furthermore, the model performs better when allowing for an assortative matching mecanism in terms of employers’ and employees’ unobservables.

Keywords: Job transitions; assortative matching; Gibbs sampling; frailties; dynamic models; matched employer-employee data. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C15 C41 J20 J41 J62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2006

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