Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/81247 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 729
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test Bertola and Rogerson’s (1997) hypothesis of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the manufacturing sector. The wage compression effect is stronger on job destruction than on job creation, consistent with downward wage rigidity. Further results include a strong positive relationship between the fraction of temporary employees and job turnover and a negative relationship between the amount of working-time flexibility and job reallocation.
Subjects: 
Job Creation and Job Destruction
Wage Dispersion
Temporary Employment Contracts
Panel Data
JEL: 
J21
J31
J63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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