@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp5088, author={Hospido, Laura}, title={Job Changes and Individual-Job Specific Wage Dynamics}, year={2010}, month={Jul}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={5088}, url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5088}, abstract={This paper develops an error components model that is used to examine the impact of job changes on the dynamics and variance of individual log earnings. I use data on work histories drawn from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) that makes it possible to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary job-to-job changes. The potential endogeneity of job mobility in relation to earnings is circumvented by means of an instrument variable estimation method that also allows to control for unobserved individual-job specific heterogeneity. Once controlled for individual and job-specific effects, the persistence within jobs is almost zero, whereas across jobs is significant but small.}, keywords={individual-job specific fixed effects;job changes;individual wages;dynamic models;panel data}, }