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Job Switching Wage Premium

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  • Keenan, Enda

    (Central Bank of Ireland)

Abstract

This paper explores the wage premium associated with job switching in Ireland by utilising newly available gross pay data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) linked to administrative data on individual earnings. Job switching, or moving directly from one job to another, is often driven by the potential for wage increases and improved job matches. While job switching behaviour tends to vary with business cycles, this analysis finds that job switchers in Ireland experience a wage premium. By controlling for demographic factors such as age, education and sector, the estimated wage premium for job switchers lies between 2.3 per cent and 2.4 per cent in the quarter immediately following a job change.

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  • Keenan, Enda, 2024. "Job Switching Wage Premium," Research Technical Papers 7/RT/24, Central Bank of Ireland.
    • Handle: RePEc:cbi:wpaper:7/rt/24
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    Keywords

    Job switching; Labour mobility; Job-to-job flows; Wage premium; Employment.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models

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