Relative wage positions and quit behavior: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Industrial and Labor Relations Review

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 126-147

  Pfeifer, Christian ^a   Schneck, Stefan ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b Institute for SME Research Bonn   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparison income; Mobility; Signal; Status; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 84255189588     PISSN: 00197939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/001979391206500107     Document Type: Article

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