the same job. The career mobility model suggests that this is indeed the case, with overeducated workers being more prone … to take up on-the-job training, to climb up the career ladder, or to eventually leave to professions more suitable to … overeducated workers have a significantly higher probability to take up on-the-job training than adequately educated workers and …

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer … the degree of assortative matching, on average, increases with each job move. For high-quality workers, this can be … explained by job ladder models as these workers move to higher-quality firms. Low-quality workers are matched less assortatively …

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer …, increases with each job move. For high-quality workers, this can be explained by job ladder models as these workers move to … to climb the job ladder at first. For this group, the increase in assortative matching increases after the third job …

This paper shows that job mobility is a valuable channel which employed workers use to mitigate bad labor market shocks …. I construct and estimate a model of wage dynamics jointly with a dynamic model of job mobility. The key feature of the … Participation. The first result is that the variance of match-level shocks is large, and the consequent value of job mobility is …

This paper employs survey data on the reasons to quit of Dutch job changers who entered or left a public sector job in … 2001. We show that workers' reasons to quit their public sector job influence their decision to stay in or leave their … industry of employment. A bad experience with, for instance, pay, work pressure, or job duties makes a change in industry more …

Job change is a decision under uncertainty: It is associated with costs whereas the decision is made without full … knowledge about future benefits. In order to investigate the relationship between willingness to take risks and job mobility, we … first extend a model for on-the-job search with nonwage job characteristics by including heterogeneity in risk attitudes …