 Career Choice and Wage GrowthNo 504, 2006 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Abstract: This paper develops and estimates a search model in which career-specific and firm-specific matches determine job mobility and wage growth. Each worker-firm and worker-career relationship is characterized by a match that evolves stochastically over time. At each period, a worker has three options. He can: 1) stay at his current firm, 2) draw a new firm-specific match by changing employer or 3) change career by drawing a new career and firm-specific match. I calculate the likelihood function treating the model as a non-Gaussian state-space model where the unobserved state variables are the firm and career matches and the non-gaussianity is due to the selection process. I use the structural estimates to calculate ex-ante and ex-post returns to firm tenure or career experience. The implied estimates of the returns are different from the estimates that I would find using standard IV techniques. In order to understand the causes of these differences, I show that these IV techniques are not able to consistently estimate the parameters of a search model like the one presented in this paper. Keywords: Career choice; wage growth; structural estimation; job mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:red:sed006:504 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in 2006 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics Society for Economic Dynamics Marina Azzimonti Department of Economics Stonybrook University 10 Nicolls Road Stonybrook NY 11790 USA. Contact information at EDIRC. |
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