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Wage growth and job mobility in the United Kingdom and Germany

Dustmann, C.; Pereira, S.C.; (2008) Wage growth and job mobility in the United Kingdom and Germany. Industrial and Labor Relations Review , 61 (3) pp. 374-393. Green open access

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Abstract

Using data from the British Household Panel Survey for 1991-99 and the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984-99, the authors investigate job mobility and estimate the returns to tenure and experience. Job mobility was higher in the United Kingdom than in Germany. Returns to experience also seem to have been substantially higher in the United Kingdom, where the wage gain associated with ten years of labor market experience was around 80%, compared to 35% in Germany. The low returns to labor market experience in Germany appear to have been accountable to one group of workers: those with apprenticeship training, who tended to receive fairly high starting wages but to experience relatively low wage growth thereafter. Wage growth due to labor market experience was similar between the two countries for the other skill groups. Returns to tenure were close to zero in both countries.

Type: Article
Title: Wage growth and job mobility in the United Kingdom and Germany
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/ilrreview/vo...
Language: English
Additional information: © Cornell University 2008
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/16428
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