Follow the money ? Workers' mobility, wages and amenities

L'appât du gain ? Mobilité des salariés, salaires et aménités

Damien Babet () and Mathieu Chabaud
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Damien Babet: INSEE - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE), Centre d'études et de prospective - Service de la Statistique et de la Prospective - Ministère de l'Agriculture et de l'Alimentation
Mathieu Chabaud: INSEE - Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (INSEE)

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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; Mobilité inter-entreprises; baisse de salaire; aménités non-monétaires; wage gap; non-wage amenities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10-17
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