TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hunnes, Arngrim
AU  - Møen, Jarle
AU  - Salvanes, Kjell G
TI  - Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway 1980-1997
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12974
PY  - 2007
Y2  - March 2007
DO  - 10.3386/w12974
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12974
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12974.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Arngrim Hunnes
Department of Economics & Business Administration
University of Agder
Service box 422
NO-4604 Kristiansand
NORWAY
Tel: 47-38-141514
Fax: 47-38-141027
E-Mail: arngrim.hunnes@uia.no

Jarle Møen
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Department of Business and Management Science
Helleveien 30, N-5045
Bergen, NORWAY
Tel: 47-5595-9612
Fax: 47-5595-9650
E-Mail: jarle.moen@nhh.no

Kjell G. Salvanes
Department of Economics
Norwegian School of Economics
Hellev. 30, N-5035 Bergen
Norway
E-Mail: kjell.salvanes@nhh.no
M1  - published as Arngrim Hunnes, Jarle Møen, Kjell G. Salvanes. "Wage Structure and Labor Mobility in Norway, 1980-97 ," in Edward P. Lazear and Kathryn L. Shaw, editors, "The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison" University of Chicago Press (2008)

M3  - presented at "The Analysis of Firms and Employees", January 2, 2007
AB  - To what extent do different firms follow different wage policies? How do such policies affect worker mobility between firms, and what are the effects of different wage bargaining regimes? The empirical branch of personnel economics has long been hampered by a lack of representative data sets. Norway is one of a handful of countries that has produced rich linked employer/employee data suitable for such analysis. This paper has three parts. First, we describe the wage setting and employment protection institutions in Norway. Next, we describe the Norwegian datasets. Finally, we document a large number of stylized facts regarding wage structure and labor mobility within and between Norwegian firms. Our main dataset covers white-collar workers in the manufacturing and private sectors for the period 1980-1997. We also have blue-collar data for the 1986-1997 period covering the core of the manufacturing sector. Information about occupations, monthly wages, hours worked and bonuses is available, as well as various worker and firm characteristics.
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