Tenure and experience effects on wages: a theory

This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts. Workers accumulate general human capital through learning-...

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Main Authors: Burdett, Ken (Author), Coles, Melvyn Glyn 1961- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Munich CESifo 2010
Series:CESifo working papers 3203 : Category 4, Labour markets
Online Access:Volltext
Summary:This paper investigates equilibria in a labor market where firms post wage/tenure contracts and risk-averse workers, both employed and unemployed, search for better paid job opportunities. Different firms typically offer different contracts. Workers accumulate general human capital through learning-by-doing. With on-the-job search, a worker’s wage evolves endogenously over time through experience effects, tenure effects and quits to better paid employment. This equilibrium approach suggests how to identify econometrically between experience and tenure effects on worker wages.
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