In this paper we use indirect inference to estimate a joint model of earnings, employment, job changes, wage rates, and … heterogeneity, job-specific error components in both wages and hours, and measurement error. We use the model to address a number of … important questions in labor economics, including the source of the experience profile of wages, the response of job changes to …

The idea that wages rise relative to alternatives as job seniority accumulates is the foundation of the theory of … tenures typically earn higher wages tends to support these views, yet this evidence ignores the decisions that have brought … individuals to the combination of wages, job tenure, and experience that are observed in survey data. Allowing for sources of bias …

training on turnover and positive effects on wage growth in the firm and over longer periods (1968 to 1983). Wages of trainees …' wages grow less in the long run than those of less frequent movers (stayers), despite wage gains in moving. Mobility wage …

job changing and the evolution of wages for up to 15 years. Following an initial period of weak attachment to both the … accounts for about two-thirds of the total number of jobs he will hold in his career. The evolution of wages plays a key role … in this transition to stable employment: we estimate that wage gains at job changes account for at least a third of early …

the current period movers. Longer-run wage gains are defined as the difference in wages between two successive jobs at the …

excess supply. The net union premium was estimated by relating changes in wages to changes in union status of the same worker … measured by wages. This conclusion was less reliable for older workers. Subsequent analysis explores the effects of successful … preferring reductions in hours to reductions in men, and it helps to stabilize employment in the face of fluctuating demand, by a …