Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73805 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
ifo Working Paper No. 152
Publisher: 
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, Munich
Abstract: 
This paper focuses on the effect of experience within an industry on wages. I use a correlated random effects simultaneous equation model that allows individual and match heterogeneity to affect wages, job tenure and industry experience. I estimate my model separately for men and women using a large panel of young Italian workers for the years 1986–2004. Results show that wage returns to industry experience are much higher than wage returns to job seniority. The hypotheses of exogeneity of job seniority and industry experience in the wage equation are rejected: high-wage workers and highwage matches last longer.
Subjects: 
Wage growth and industry experience
firm tenure
simultaneous equation models
random effects
Worker History Italian Panel (WHIP) dataset
JEL: 
J31
J62
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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