What is it about?
This paper compares the return to skills for firm stayers, firm changers in the same industry and firm changers to other industries. Based on a sample of Portuguese employees in retail banking, our results confirm significant inter-firm and inter-industry skill transferability. Difference-in-differences estimates with propensity score matching show that firm switchers benefit from a wage premium compared to firm stayers. However, the wage premium drops when movers leave the banking sector.
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Most studies on skill transferability focus on the return to capabilities developed in the initial job and disregard the different characteristics of the origin and the destination industries. In contrast, this paper accounts for the impact of origin and destination industry. In addition, to the authors’ knowledge this paper provides the first implementation of Abadie’s semi-parametric difference-in-differences PSM estimator for a multi-treatment case (Abadie, 2005).
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This page is a summary of: The Value of Transferable Skills, January 2012, Dinamia'cet-IUL,
DOI: 10.7749/dinamiacet-iul.wp.2012.09.
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Site of FLEX (Flexible wages for flexible contracts? The dynamics of the relationship between wage policy and employment contracts at the firm level), the research project that originated this paper
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An enhanced version of this paper has been recently accepted for publication on the Scottish Journal of Political Economy (May 2014)
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