Tenure and Experience Effects on Wages: A Theory

Kenneth Burdett and Melvyn Coles

No 3203, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts. Workers accumulate general human capital through learning-by-doing. With on-the-job search, a worker’s wage evolves endogenously over time through experience effects, tenure effects and quits to better paid employment. This equilibrium approach suggests how to identify econometrically between experience and tenure effects on worker wages.

Keywords: experience; tenure; search; equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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