Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/87745 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
ETLA Discussion Papers No. 1244
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We study career and wage dynamics within and between firms using a large linked employer-employee panel dataset spanning 26 years. We construct six-level hierarchies for more than 5,000 firms. We replicate most of the analyses from Baker, Gibbs and Holmström (Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1994) and make some extensions. Many of our results corroborate their findings. Careers within firms are important, but the strong version of the theory of internal labor markets does not fit the data. Recent theories of career and wage dynamics explain our findings well.
Subjects: 
internal labor markets
employer changes
promotions
wage growth
human capital
JEL: 
M51
M12
J62
L22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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