Duration of Low Wage Employment : A Study Based on a Survival Model

This paper investigates low wage retention using a survival analysis approach. Variables explaining low wage retention take into account the characteristics of the employee, such as education, age, tenure with the company, gender and nationality, and the characteristics of the job and the company such as industry affiliation, number of employees, age of the company and location. Despite low wage retention being a well known field of research, to our knowledge this is the first research paper using survival analysis to explain the duration of a low wage situation