Tenure, experience, human capital and wages: a tractable equilibrium search model of wage dynamics

Jesper Bagger, Francois Fontaine and Jean-Marc Robin

No 12/14, CeMMAP working papers from Institute for Fiscal Studies

Abstract: We develop and estimate an equilibrium job search model of worker careers, allowing for human capital accumulation, employer heterogeneity and individual-level shocks. Career wage growth is decomposed into the contributions of human capital and job search, within and between jobs. Human capital accumulation is largest for highly educated workers, and both human capital accumulation and job search contribute to the observed concavity of wage-experience profiles. The contribution from job search to wage growth, both within- and between-job, declines over the first ten years of a career- the `job-shopping' phase of a working life - after which workers settle into high-quality jobs and use outside off ers to generate gradual wage increases, thus reaping the benefits from competition between employers.

Date: 2014-03-14
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Journal Article: Tenure, Experience, Human Capital, and Wages: A Tractable Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dynamics (2014)
Working Paper: Tenure, experience, human capital and wages: a tractable equilibrium search model of wage dynamics (2014)
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Working Paper: Tenure, Experience, Human Capital and Wages: A Tractable Equilibrium Search Model of Wage Dynamics (2011)
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DOI: 10.1920/wp.cem.2014.1214

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