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| Title: | | Performance, seniority and wages : formal salary systems and individual earnings profiles  |
| Authors: | | Dohmen, Thomas J. |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 935 |
| Abstract: | | This paper replicates studies by Medoff and Abraham (1980, 1981) and Flabbi and Ichino (2001) using personnel data from the Dutch national aircraft manufacturer Fokker. It shows how a formal salary system, as is widely used by large firms, brings about that seniority-wage profiles are largely independent of controls for reported performance in cross-sectional wage regressions even though supervisors' evaluations shape life-cycle earnings profiles. Performance ratings determine how fast a worker climbs the firm's career and wage ladder. The paper also reveals that real wage growth depends on the employer's prosperity. Furthermore it demonstrates that formal salary systems cause serial correlation in wage growth and 'Green Card' effects. |
| Subjects: | | formal salary systems returns to seniority internal labor markets personnel economics |
| JEL: | | M52 J31 J30 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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