<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer–employee administrative data and proxying actual co-workership with overlapping work histories, we show that the overall wage gain attributable to former co-workers consists of multiple elements: a contact-specific, an individual-specific, a firm-specific and a match-specific component. Former co-workers, besides the direct effect of their presence, may funnel individuals into high-paying firms, enhance the sorting of good quality workers into firms, and may contribute to the creation of better employer–employee matches. By introducing and applying a wage-decomposition technique, we demonstrate that there are non-negligible differences between linked and market hires in all empirically separable wage elements. By focusing on specific scenarios, we provide additional empirical evidence in favor of employee referral and information transmission as the main drivers of co-worker gains.</p></abstract>

We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence. Using Hungarian linked employer–employee administrative data and proxying actual co-workership with overlapping work histories, we show that the overall wage gain attributable to former co-workers consists of multiple elements: a contact-specific, an individual-specific, a firm-specific and a match-specific component. Former co-workers, besides the direct effect of their presence, may funnel individuals into high-paying firms, enhance the sorting of good quality workers into firms, and may contribute to the creation of better employer–employee matches. By introducing and applying a wage-decomposition technique, we demonstrate that there are non-negligible differences between linked and market hires in all empirically separable wage elements. By focusing on specific scenarios, we provide additional empirical evidence in favor of employee referral and information transmission as the main drivers of co-worker gains.

Decomposition of co-worker wage gains

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

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We address the presence, magnitude, and composition of wage gains related to former co-workers and discuss the mechanisms that could explain their existence....

Decomposition of co-worker wage gains

Publicado en línea: 30 nov 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajole-2020-0008

Palabras clave
co-worker network, wage decomposition, employee referral, match quality, information transmission, fixed effects, linked employer–employee data

© 2020 István Boza, Virág Ilyés, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Decomposition of co-worker wage gains

Publicado en línea: 30 nov 2020

Páginas: -

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/izajole-2020-0008

Palabras claveco-worker network, wage decomposition, employee referral, match quality, information transmission, fixed effects, linked employer–employee data

© 2020 István Boza, Virág Ilyés, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
co-worker network, wage decomposition, employee referral, match quality, information transmission, fixed effects, linked employer–employee data