Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring

Sessions, John G.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos

doi:10.1111/j.0042-7092.2007.00700.x

Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring

IZA Working Paper No. 3307

24 Pages Posted: 23 May 2008

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John G. Sessions

University of Bath; IZA Institute of Labor Economics

We investigate the relationship between the slope of the wage-tenure profile and the level of monitoring across two cross sections of matched employer-employee British data. Our theoretical model predicts that increased monitoring leads to a decline in the slope of the wage-tenure profile. Our empirical analysis provides strong support for this prediction.

Keywords: monitoring, tenure, efficiency wages

JEL Classification: J33, J41, J54

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Sessions, John G. and Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos, Tenure, Wage Profiles and Monitoring. IZA Working Paper No. 3307, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1135883 or http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0042-7092.2007.00700.x