Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data
Böckerman, P., Skedinger, P., & Uusitalo, R. (2018). Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data. Labour Economics, 51, 48-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2017.11.006
Published in
Labour EconomicsDate
2018Copyright
© 2018 The Authors.
We construct multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of last-in, first-out rules. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between different units of the same firms operating in Sweden and Finland, two countries that have different seniority rules. We observe a relatively lower exit rate for more senior workers in Sweden in the shrinking firms and among the low-wage workers. These empirical patterns are consistent with last-in, first-out rules in Sweden providing protection from dismissals for the more senior workers among the worker groups to whom the rules are most relevant. Similarly, we observe a steeper seniority-wage profile in Sweden, suggesting that last-in, first-out rules may also be beneficial for more senior workers in terms of compensation.
Publisher
ElsevierISSN Search the Publication Forum
0927-5371Keywords
Publication in research information system
https://converis.jyu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/27375161
Metadata
Show full item recordCollections
- Kauppakorkeakoulu [1276]
License
Related items
Showing items with similar title or keywords.
-
Can corporate social responsibility (CSR) be recruited? : an insight to future employees' values and perceptions on attractive employers
Honkala, Henna (2013)Many businesses acknowledge that they want to achieve the best possible employees in order to succeed in the markets in the near future. This study takes a stance on who these employees, the future talents, are and what ... -
How much does an employer's attractiveness matter to youth employment? Evidence from a developing country
Buitek, Elvira К.; Kaliyeva, Saule A.; Turginbayeva, Ardak N.; Meldakhanova, Marziya K.; Shaikh, Aijaz A. (Emerald, 2023)Purpose Drawing on the contemporary literature and the theory of employer attractiveness, the authors aimed to examine key antecedents and consequences of employer attractiveness by proposing functional hypotheses and ... -
How does the age structure of worker flows affect firm performance?
Ilmakunnas, Pekka; Maliranta, Mika (Springer New York LLC, 2016)We develop a method for decomposing firm performance to impacts coming from the inflows and outflows of workers and apply it to study whether older workers are costly to firms. Our estimation equations are derived from a ... -
The roles of job and worker restructuring in aggregate wage growth dynamics
Kauhanen, Antti; Maliranta, Mika (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2019)We propose an approach for measuring and analyzing the dynamics of the standard aggregate wage growth of macro statistics with micro data. Our method decomposes the aggregate wage growth into the wage growth of job stayers ... -
An empirical assessment of employer branding as a form of sport event sponsorship
Karjaluoto, Heikki; Paakkonen Lasse (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019)Purpose. The purpose of this paper is to expand and test Backhaus and Tikoo’s (2004) employer branding (EB) conceptual framework from the perspective of internal EB in a sport event sponsorship context. Design/methodolo ...