On-the-job search and the wage distribution

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Christensen, BJ; Lentz, R; Mortensen, DT; Neumann, GR; Werwatz, A
• 署名单位: Aarhus University; Boston University; Northwestern University; University of Iowa; University of Potsdam
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/425432
• 发表日期: 2005
• 页码: 31-58
• 关键词: equilibrium search; dispersion; seniority; unemployment; earnings; workers; MODEL; rise

摘要

The article structually estimates an on-the-job search model of job separations. Given each employer pays observably equivalent workers the same but wages are dispersed across employers, an employer's separation flow is the sum of an exogenous outflow unrelated to the wage and a job-to-job flow that decreases with the employer's wage. Using data from the Danish Integrated Database for Labour Market Research, the empirical results imply, as predicted by theory, that search effort declines with the wage. Furthermore, the estimates explain the employment effect, defined as the horizontal difference between the distribution of wages earned and the wage offer distribution.