Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway 1980-1997

John Hunnes, Jarle Møen and Kjell G Salvanes

No 12974, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: To what extent do different firms follow different wage policies? How do such policies affect worker mobility between firms, and what are the effects of different wage bargaining regimes? The empirical branch of personnel economics has long been hampered by a lack of representative data sets. Norway is one of a handful of countries that has produced rich linked employer/employee data suitable for such analysis. This paper has three parts. First, we describe the wage setting and employment protection institutions in Norway. Next, we describe the Norwegian datasets. Finally, we document a large number of stylized facts regarding wage structure and labor mobility within and between Norwegian firms. Our main dataset covers white-collar workers in the manufacturing and private sectors for the period 1980-1997. We also have blue-collar data for the 1986-1997 period covering the core of the manufacturing sector. Information about occupations, monthly wages, hours worked and bonuses is available, as well as various worker and firm characteristics.

JEL-codes: J31 J50 J62 J63 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-03
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Published as Lazear, Edward P. and Kathryn L. Shaw (eds.) The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Published as Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway, 1980-97 , Arngrim Hunnes, Jarle Møen, Kjell G. Salvanes. in The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison , Lazear and Shaw. 2008

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