Burdett, K and Carrillo-Tudela, C and Coles, M (2009) Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium. UNSPECIFIED. Institute for the Study of Labor, Discussion Papers, 4215.
Burdett, K and Carrillo-Tudela, C and Coles, M (2009) Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium. UNSPECIFIED. Institute for the Study of Labor, Discussion Papers, 4215.
Burdett, K and Carrillo-Tudela, C and Coles, M (2009) Human Capital Accumulation and Labour Market Equilibrium. UNSPECIFIED. Institute for the Study of Labor, Discussion Papers, 4215.
Abstract
We analyse an equilibrium labour market with on-the-job search and experience effects (where workers learn-by-doing). The analysis yields a standard Mincer wage equation with worker fixed effects and endogenously determined firm fixed effects. It shows that learning-by-doing increases equilibrium wage dispersion consistent with the data. Equilibrium sorting - where over time more experienced workers also tend to find and quit to better paid employment - has a significant impact on wage inequality. As the model yields a cross section distribution of wages paid with the 'right' structure (the density of wages paid is single peaked with a 'fat' Pareto right tail) and yields the 'right' time profile of worker wage outcomes (the initial 10 years of a worker's career are characterised by several job changes and rapid wage growth) it yields a new, coherent statistical structure for future applied work.
Item Type: | Monograph (UNSPECIFIED) |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | human capital accumulation; wage dispersion; search |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2012 15:47 |
Last Modified: | 16 May 2024 18:16 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2738 |