Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192283 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 301
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
This paper investigates whether returns to experience and seniority vary between workers with different levels of education and between different types of firms. Using a large administrative dataset for Norwegian manufacturing, I find that more educated workers have higher experience and seniority premiums, indicating that they accumulate more human capital (both general and firm-specific) than workers with less education. Firm characteristics are also found to be important for experience and seniority premiums. Indicators of technological change seem to be more important for returns to experience and seniority than indicators of technological level. The results suggest that workers learn from their colleagues, and that they learn the skills that their colleagues possess.
Subjects: 
Wages
experience
seniority
firm and worker characteristics
linked employer-employee data.
JEL: 
J24
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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