Wages and recruitment. Evidence from external wage changes.

Autor/in	Falch, Torberg
Titel	Wages and recruitment. Evidence from external wage changes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Löhne und Personalrekrutierung. Erkenntnisse über externe Lohnveränderungen.
Quelle	In: ILR review, 70 (2017) 2, S. 483-518 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0019-7939; 2162-271X
DOI	10.1177/0019793916651040
Schlagwörter	Schule; Lehrer; Lohnhöhe; Lohnpolitik; Lohnzulage; Personalauswahl; Personalbeschaffung; Stellenbesetzung; Zentralisierung; Norwegen
Abstract	"In this article, the author estimates the causal effect of the wage level on the recruitment rate in establishments. During the 1990s, the wage setting for certified teachers in Norway was completely centralized, with a state-paid wage premium of about 10% at some schools with severe recruitment problems. The empirical approach exploits within-school variation in wage-premium eligibility and that actual teacher supply is empirically observed at schools with excess demand for teachers. In a difference-in-differences framework, the wage premium increases the recruitment rate by 6 to 7 percentage points. This finding is robust to model specification and indicates that the recruitment elasticity to the wage is equal to the separation elasticity in absolute terms. The implied short-run labor-supply elasticity for individual establishments is about 1.4. It is also evidence of a diminishing return to scale in recruitment activity, a central assumption in search-theoretic models of imperfect competition in the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/1