Bryson, Alex;
Dale-Olsen, Harald;
(2024)
Job Search, Efficiency Wages and Taxes.
(IZA Discussion Papers
17385).
IZA - Institute of Labor Economics: Bonn, Germany.
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Abstract
Norwegian workers' job mobility decisions are related to firms' wage policies, but also depend on the national tax schedule. By utilising Norwegian population-wide administrative linked employer-employee data on workers and firms between 2010-2019, we study how the job-to-job turnover of employees is affected by marginal taxes and firms' pay policies, enabling inferences to be made about on-the-job search. Paying higher wages is associated with a drop in job-to-job separation rates, but this negative relationship is weakened when income taxes increase. Higher taxes imply strictly reduced search activity, but less so for bonus job-workers than salaried workers.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Job Search, Efficiency Wages and Taxes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/17385/job-s... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | job search, marginal taxes, monopsony, wages, effort |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198859 |
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