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| Title: | | Relative wage positions and quit behavior: new evidence from linked employer-employee data  |
| Authors: | | Pfeifer, Christian Schneck, Stefan |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | University of Lüneburg Working Paper Series in Economics 163 |
| Abstract: | | We use a large linked employer-employee data set to analyze the importance of relative wage positions in the context of individual quit decisions as an inverse measure of job satisfaction. Our main findings are: (1) Workers with higher relative wage positions within their firms are on average more likely to quit their jobs than workers with lower relative wage positions; and (2) workers, who experience a loss in their relative wage positions, are also more likely to have a wage cut associated with their job-to-job transition. The overall results therefore suggest that the status effect is dominated by an opposing signal effect. |
| Subjects: | | Comparison income mobility signaling status wages |
| JEL: | | D03 J31 J62 J63 M52 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Paper Series in Economics, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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