Accumulating valuable work experience: the importance of large firms and big cities

Jan Cornelius Peters and Annekatrin Niebuhr

No 202304, IAB-Discussion Paper from Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany]

Abstract: "Using linked employer-employee data on labor market biographies of workers in Germany, this paper analyzes where valuable work experience is primarily acquired. It distinguishes between learning effects related to firm size and labor market size. We show that wages increase with the size of the cities and establishments in which experience was accumulated. Almost 40 percent of the dynamic benefits of working in large cities are in fact due to working in large firms. We provide evidence on two potential explanations for the role of size: formal training increases with firm size and the frequency of job changes with city size." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Keywords: Bundesrepublik Deutschland; IAB-Open-Access-Publikation; Auswirkungen; Berufserfahrung; Betriebsgröße; Großunternehmen; Integrierte Erwerbsbiografien; Lohnentwicklung; regionaler Arbeitsmarkt; regionaler Vergleich; qualifikationsspezifische Faktoren; Stadtregion; Weiterbildungsangebot; Arbeitsplatzwechsel; 2005-2011 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 R12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 74 pages
Date: 2023-03-30
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-des, nep-geo, nep-hrm, nep-lma and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.48720/IAB.DP.2304

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