TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bryson, Alex
AU  - Dale-Olsen, Harald
        TI  - Job Search, Efficiency Wages and Taxes
        PY  - 2024/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17385
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17385
        AB  - Norwegian workers' job mobility decisions are related to firms' wage policies, but also depend on the national tax schedule. By utilising Norwegian population-wide administrative linked employer-employee data on workers and firms between 2010-2019, we study how the job-to-job turnover of employees is affected by marginal taxes and firms' pay policies, enabling inferences to be made about on-the-job search. Paying higher wages is associated with a drop in job-to-job separation rates, but this negative relationship is weakened when income taxes increase. Higher taxes imply strictly reduced search activity, but less so for bonus job-workers than salaried workers.
        KW  - job search
KW  - marginal taxes
KW  - monopsony
KW  - wages
KW  - effort
        ER  -