@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp9367, author={Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos and Kaas, Leo}, title={Worker Mobility in a Search Model with Adverse Selection}, year={2015}, month={Sep}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={9367}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9367}, abstract={We analyze the effects of adverse selection on worker turnover and wage dynamics in a frictional labor market. We consider a model of on-the-job search where firms offer promotion wage contracts to workers of different abilities, which is unknown to firms at the hiring stage. With sufficiently strong information frictions, low-wage firms offer separating contracts and hire all types of workers in equilibrium, whereas high-wage firms offer pooling contracts, promoting high-ability workers only. Low-ability workers have higher turnover rates and are more often employed in low-wage firms. The model replicates the negative relationship between job-to-job transitions and wages observed in the U.S. labor market.}, keywords={worker mobility;on-the-job search;adverse selection;wage dynamics}, }