Seminar
Research seminar: Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach
- Speaker
- Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin
- Date
- 8 December 2020
- When
- 11:45 - 12:45
- Where
- TEAMS, link will be available later
Content
Jan Sebastian Nimczik, ESMT Berlin: https://sites.google.com/site/jannimczik/home
“ Internal Labor Markets: A Worker Flow Approach”
Joint with Ingrid Huitfeldt, Andreas R. Kostøl and Andrea Weber
Lenke til paper: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oxlK0TaSp64f5gTz9XcChxtYYr3bSEE_/view
Abstract: This paper provides a new method to study how workers’ career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge of organizing jobs within firms into hierarchy levels by proposing a data-driven ranking method based on observed worker flows between occupations within firms. We apply our method to linked employer-employee data from Norway that records fine-grade occupational codes and tracks contract changes within firms. Our findings confirm existing evidence that is primarily based on case studies for single firms. We expand on this by documenting substantial heterogeneity in the structure and hierarchy of ILMs across a broad range of large firms. Our findings on wage and promotion dynamics in ILMs are consistent with models of careers in organizations.
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Contact
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- Position
- Researcher
- Ingrid.Huitfeldt@ssb.no
- Phone
- 98455290